> On 26 Jan 2026, at 10:57 PM, Nilesh Patra <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Package: dpkg
> Severity: serious
> X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>.org
> Control: affects -1 + src:lintian
> Version: 1.23.5
>
> Hi Guillem,
>
> Lintian’s test suite has started to fail with huge number of errors.
>
> | dpkg-source: error: 'Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <he@unknown>, Jeroen van
> Wolffelaar<[email protected]>,
> | Frank <[email protected]>, Yama@gotchi, Josip, I am afraid of spam and think
> this helps <no_spam_please AT debian.org>’ is
> | not a valid email |address list
>
> This looks like the consequence of latest dpkg upload.
I might be getting the timeline wrong, as I skimmed through git.
It might have started happening with
https://tracker.debian.org/news/1708480/accepted-dpkg-1234-source-into-unstable/
where a new email validation module was added.
Git commit 5c8d7c5c2df15468b2cce3f852fcf700ae253fe0 suggests this where it
throws an error and then chokes. Although
the commit dates back to dec, it was actually uploaded last week.
And commit 655b87ff07fd137f657d0d47db02127582656f56 now just prompts it to die
instead of erroring out.
