* admin/authors.el (authors-canonical-author-name):

Ignore name issues in "lax" ChangeLogs.

diff --git a/admin/authors.el b/admin/authors.el
index 16e62610bad62915398575d9a27340e98cffb5da..045527644a389e2958c4c320fc648974b7db803c 100644 (file)
--- a/admin/authors.el
+++ b/admin/authors.el
@@ -1353,9 +1353,10 @@ it is found in `authors-fixed-case'."
     (setq author (replace-regexp-in-string "[ \t]+" " " author))
     ;; NB this ignores the first name only case.
     (unless (string-match "[-, \t]" author)
-      (push (format-message "%s:%d: ignored `%s'"
-                           file (1+ (count-lines (point-min) pos)) author)
-           authors-ignored-names)
+      (or (authors-lax-changelog-p file)
+          (push (format-message "%s:%d: ignored `%s'"
+                                file (1+ (count-lines (point-min) pos)) author)
+                authors-ignored-names))
       (setq author ""))
     (or (car (member author authors-fixed-case))
        (capitalize author))))