in current devel version when a character variable is defined using the asterisk form

character*8  name

and I then use

common name(12)

I get an error message from f2py like

analyzevars: character array "character*8 name(12)" is considered as "character name(12,8)"; "intent(c)" is forced.

if the first definition is changed to

character(8)

then the error goes away.

The old behaviour that is consistent with FORTRAN should be restored.
Any suggestion on bug fix?