Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [BUG] Re: patch logs not rfc(2)822 compatible]

[Bug Goo]

Created as bug 133

On Thu May 27 20:37:31 2004, Tom Lord wrote:
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> Miles Bader wrote:
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> > To the best of my knowledge, it's not really intended to be parsable -- it's
> > just a string.
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> I think you may misunderstand the issue -- you're right that tla never 
> uses the Date entry in the patch logs (instead it uses Standard-date), 
> however, RFC 822 reserves Date as a header entry and also specifies the 
> formatting it uses.  Consequently, attempting to use a strict RFC 822 
> parser to load a patch log will error when it finds the bad header entry.
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> Since tla doesn't need to read (well, parse at least) the Date header 
> entry back in, I think we'd be fine simply changing the output format. 
> Only scripts that rely on it being non-RFC-822-compliant will break.
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