Am 19.04.2018 um 08:37 schrieb Andreas Tille: > On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 09:52:18PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 04:00:51PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: >>> Instead, tools grew to tolerate commas here rather than treat them as >>> separators (because they would mishandle the erroneous packages). >> Is this the main problem with fixing the Policy? Does someone have a plan >> with this? > > I checked UDD for real cases: > > udd=# select distinct maintainer from packages where maintainer like '%,%' > order by maintainer; > maintainer > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > "Adam C. Powell, IV" <[email protected]> > Adam C. Powell, IV <[email protected]> > Debian GNOME Maintainers <[email protected]>, > Sebastian Dröge <[email protected]> > John H. Robinson, IV <[email protected]> > "Natural Language Processing, Japanese" > <[email protected]> > Natural Language Processing, Japanese > <[email protected]> > Rogério Brito <[email protected]>, > + > Holger Levsen <[email protected]> > Thomas Bushnell, BSG <[email protected]> > TransNexus, Inc. <[email protected]> > (9 rows) > >>From my understanding the names in quotes should be parsed correctly, right? > > This leaves 7 maintainer names > > udd=# select distinct maintainer from packages where maintainer like '%,%' > and maintainer not like '"%' order by maintainer; > maintainer > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Adam C. Powell, IV <[email protected]> > Debian GNOME Maintainers <[email protected]>, > Sebastian Dröge <[email protected]> > John H. Robinson, IV <[email protected]> > Natural Language Processing, Japanese > <[email protected]> > Rogério Brito <[email protected]>, > + > Holger Levsen <[email protected]> > Thomas Bushnell, BSG <[email protected]> > TransNexus, Inc. <[email protected]> > (7 rows) > > Out of these there are clearly two bugs that violate our current > > udd=# select distinct package, maintainer from packages where maintainer like > '%>%,%'order by maintainer; > package | > maintainer > ------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > gir1.0-gdata-0.0 | Debian GNOME Maintainers > <[email protected]>, Sebastian Dröge > <[email protected]> > libgdata7 | Debian GNOME Maintainers > <[email protected]>, Sebastian Dröge > <[email protected]> > libgdata-common | Debian GNOME Maintainers > <[email protected]>, Sebastian Dröge > <[email protected]> > libgdata-dev | Debian GNOME Maintainers > <[email protected]>, Sebastian Dröge > <[email protected]> > libgdata-doc | Debian GNOME Maintainers > <[email protected]>, Sebastian Dröge > <[email protected]> > youtube-dl | Rogério Brito <[email protected]>, > + > | Holger Levsen <[email protected]> > (6 rows) > > > I think we should start filing bug reports against packages > that do not match our current understanding of that field > (and lintian should throw an error about this). > > Currently that definitely fits the last query but if we > intend to enhance the maintainer field to some later point > in time we should also ask the other 5 maintainers above > to add quotes around their names. > > What do you think?
libgdata seems to be a false positive. before filing bug reports, please restrict that search to sid (libgdata7 is from 2011) Regards, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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