Re: [PATCH]move double quotation marks so that keep MAINTAINERSconsistent

[Joe Perches]

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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > 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@xxxxxxx>, Last.I.First <lif@xxxxxxx>

fails and

M:	"First I. Last" <fil@xxxxxxx>, "Last.I.First" <lif@xxxxxxx>

succeeds.

You are welcome to improve the parsing in that routine.

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