On Tue, 10 Dec 2024 at 15:45:24 +0100, Raphaël Hertzog wrote:
> The Maintainer field is only allowed to have a single contact
...
> But when you put a single one followed by a comma, then lintian doesn't
> say anything and yet the value is not allowed by the policy
> (and we have many more cases in the Python team, not sure if there's some
> bad tooling involved here)
My first guess would be that some tool like `wrap-and-sort -ast` that is
intentionally canonicalizing multi-valued comma-separated fields to have
one item per line, all of them with trailing commas (so that adding or
removing any item is exactly 1 line of diff), might have mistakenly
treated Maintainer as being multi-valued at some point?
Or this might just be copy/paste mistakes from swapping the Maintainer
and a single-item Uploaders field, without removing the trailing comma
that was valid in Uploaders but becomes invalid when moved into Maintainer.
smcv
