On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 08:44:50AM +0100, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: > On Saturday 25 March 2006 05:31, Greg KH wrote: > > Am using 0.44, and ran into this tonight. If using 'quilt mail' and you > > have a patch that has a "Signed-off-by" line that looks like: > > > > Signed-off-by: Joe R. Hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > quilt will complain that the name "Joe R. Hacker" is not a proper email > > name. That is true, as it isn't quoted, but that's not required in a > > "Signed-off-by:" line (at least it isn't for Linux kernel patches.) > > The Signed-off-by header is probably part of the message body.
Yes it is. > Current quilt has heuristics built in for handling most patches well > enough. As part of those heuristics, it adds addresses from To: lines > in patch headers to the To: mail header, and Signed-off-by:, > Acked-by:, and Cc: to the Cc: mail header. It doesn't check those > addresses for validity or try to quote them, so that's probably what > causes this problem. It's checking them for validity and dieing when they aren't in the proper format. > Probably it would be good to be more liberal with recipient addresses > in general, and quote them properly automatically. That would be nice :) thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ Quilt-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/quilt-dev
