Control: found -1 2.104.0 Hi,
Eriberto Mota wrote: > lintian produces a false positive in mmorph package. I think the problem is a > comma used by an old maintainer. > > E: mmorph: bogus-mail-host-in-debian-changelog Thomas Bushnell, BSG > <t...@becket.net> Just ran into it, too, with the package screen: E: screen: bogus-mail-host-in-debian-changelog Eric Gillespie, Jr. <e...@debian.org> Anthony Fok wrote: > I ran into the same problem with the lilypond package too, though > after adding double quotes around the display name of the email > address like so: > > "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <t...@debian.org> > > the Lintian errors went away. Yes, but since a) this is emitted for ancient changelog entries which never were a problem, and b) there is no support in the debian/changelog for having more than one e-mail address in the changelog entry signature line, I consider this really to be a false positive. Will override it in the screen package until this is fixed in Lintian. > This makes sense to me because the comma is used for separating > multiple email recipients, so Lintian is right in splitting it up at > the comma, i.e. trying to parse the string "Thomas Busnell" as an > email address, and "BSG <t...@debian.org>" as another. Yeah, but it does not make sense at the point where lintian has found that address as there are no multiple addresses allowed in a debian/changelog signature: https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#debian-changelog-debian-changelog Actually, there are _no_ restrictions at all in the Debian Policy how how a "maintainer name" must look like. So after now having read the according part in the Debian Policy, for me this is very clearly a false positive. IMHO lintian should only check for valid e-mail address syntax between "<" and ">", otherwise it does not adhere to the Debian Policy. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, https://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `- | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE
