[Vmware-package-maintainers] Bug#433879: vmware-package: No validation of --maintainer switch

[James Healy]

Package: vmware-package
Version: 0.8
Severity: wishlist


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From: James Healy <jimmy at deefa.com>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit at bugs.debian.org>
Subject: vmware-package: No validation on maintainer option
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Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 11:52:51 +1000

Package: vmware-package
Version: 0.8
Severity: wishlist


While attempting to build a vmware-server package I used the following
swith

  --maintainer jimmy at deefa.com

This seemed to work, but caused compilation to fail when a script midway
through the process tried to parse the changelog and failed.

  --maintainer "James Healy <jimmy at deefa.com>"

Worked as expected. It'd be nice to describe this in more detail
in the docs and/or have a check to make sure the format is correct as
early in the process as possible.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-jh (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages vmware-package depends on:
ii  debhelper                     5.0.53     helper programs for debian/rules
ii  dpkg-dev                      1.14.5     package building tools for Debian
ii  fakeroot                      1.7.1      Gives a fake root environment
ii  make                          3.81-3     The GNU version of the "make" util
ii  module-assistant              0.10.11    tool to make module package creati
ii  python                        2.4.4-6    An interactive high-level object-o

vmware-package recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-jh (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages vmware-package depends on:
ii  debhelper                     5.0.53     helper programs for debian/rules
ii  dpkg-dev                      1.14.5     package building tools for Debian
ii  fakeroot                      1.7.1      Gives a fake root environment
ii  make                          3.81-3     The GNU version of the "make" util
ii  module-assistant              0.10.11    tool to make module package creati
ii  python                        2.4.4-6    An interactive high-level object-o

vmware-package recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information