Proposed update to python-debian

[John Wright]

Hello release managers,

Attached is a patch to the python-debian package which I intend to
upload to stable.  It fixes #597249 [1], which causes problems for some
well-formed data.  Specifically, it is problematic when parsing Vcs-Cvs
headers, like

  Vcs-Cvs: :ext:_anoncvs at anoncvs.mirbsd.org:/cvs contrib/hosted/tg/deb/cvs

(See #637524 [2].) Iain requested a backport of a version that had that
fix included, but several people suggested that the fix should go
through the normal stable update channels instead of using backports to
fix bugs.

The patch is a non-conflicting (except for the changelog) cherry-pick of
the commit to the master branch that fixed the bug and added the
regression test [3].

 [1]: http://bugs.debian.org/597249#20
 [2]: http://bugs.debian.org/637524#35
 [3]: http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-python-debian/python-debian.git;a=commitdiff;h=86ddf35be8995a0262e2753a515ebc623fcbe16f

-- 
John Wright <jsw at debian.org>
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