bnewb...@robocracy.org writes ("Bug#852661: dgit: fails to fetch when
Maintainer has `,` in name"):
> I don't understand the original motivation for stripping comma-and-suffix
> though. At first I assumed it was to reduce to a single maintainer if
> there were multiple maintainers listed, but that seems against
> debian-policy (linked before). Do you know/remember what this
> search/replace is trying to achieve?
I was anticipating that Maintainer would be changed in the future to
permit multiple Maintainers.
I see that something more subtle will need to be done.
> I'm also confused about the combination of the 'm' and 's' modifiers:
> m Treat string as multiple lines.
> s Treat string as single line.
See the perlre manpage for the subtle details.
FAOD: I intend to fix this properly fairly soon, but given the freeze
it may not make stretch. I will probably wait a bit to allow dgit 3.9
to migrate and then consider whether to prepare a bugfix upload and
ask for a freeze exception. In the meantime I'll probably upload a
fix to experimental or something.
Regards,
Ian.
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