Bug#855644: devscripts: grep-excuses doesn't work with maintainer name

[James McCoy]

Control: clone -1 -2
Control: retitle -2 [britney] Add an EOL to the verdict summary line in HTML output
Control: tag -2 patch
Control: retitle -1 grep-excuses: Use excuses.yaml instead of update_excuses.html.gz
Control: severity -1 normal

On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 10:42:17PM +0100, Christian Marillat wrote:
> $ grep-excuses sawfish-merlin-ugliness
> sawfish-merlin-ugliness (- to 1.3.1-1)
>     Migration status: BLOCKED: Rejected/introduces a regression (please see below)
>     Maintainer: Christian Marillat
>     4589 days old (needed 10 days)
>     Not touching package due to block request by freeze (check https://release.debian.org/testing/freeze_policy.html if update is needed)
>     sawfish-merlin-ugliness has new bugs!
>     Updating sawfish-merlin-ugliness introduces new bugs: #800278
>     Piuparts tested OK - https://piuparts.debian.org/sid/source/s/sawfish-merlin-ugliness.html
> 
> When 'grep-excuses Marillat' or grep-excuses 'Christian Marillat' return nothing.

This is due to a recent change in the script that generates the
update_excuses.html page, which breaks grep-excuses' parsing.

I'm splitting this bug into two pieces.  One, for the release team, to
fix the generation of the HTML so grep-excuses is fixed now, and another
for grep-excuses to start consuming YAML instead of parsing HTML.

I have patches for both bugs, but the YAML one will need to wait until
Buster, since it's essentially a rewrite of that part of grep-excuses.

Cheers,
-- 
James
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