Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Feb 2011 10:28:20 +0100 | From | Florian Mickler <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH]move double quotation marks so that keep MAINTAINERS consistent |
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On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 13:59:50 -0800 Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-02-19 at 17:48 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > > On Wed 2011-02-09 19:17:52, David Miller wrote: > > > From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> > > > > I suspect that some mail clients will explode if you provide them with > > > > an unquoted string containing periods. That would make copy-n-paste > > > > rather a hassle. > > > It's not clients, it's servers. > > > SMTP rules state that characters such as "." cannot appear > > > unquoted in email headers. > > > vger.kernel.org rejects mail when this violation occurs. > > Ok, but should not MUA do this quotation? Quick test shows that mutt does... > > My recollection is that the get_maintainer script > cannot parse M: lines with multiple entries with > periods without the quotes. > > M: First I. Last <fil@foo.bar>, Last.I.First <lif@foo.bar> > > fails and > > M: "First I. Last" <fil@foo.bar>, "Last.I.First" <lif@foo.bar> > > succeeds. > > You are welcome to improve the parsing in that routine. >
There are perl modules providing full rfc parsing of email addresses (with all those weird cases nobody uses) ... but i doubt it's urgent, especially as we can more or less control the input to get_maintainer.pl by controlling the MAINTAINER file and the git version history ...
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