why is tagger header optional?

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So why is it legal to omit the tagger header from a tag?

E.g. the Linux kernel tag v2.6.12 has no tagger header:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=tag;h=26791a8bcf0e6d33f43aef7682bdb555236d56de

JGit is currently failing on this tag, because its fsck
implementation demands that a tag have a tagger header
that can be parsed as a person identity.

Looking at tag.c's parse_tag_buffer(), the variable sig_line seems
to be expected to point at the "tagger " header (given its name),
but its not actually validated as such.

Is there a version of Git floating around that doesn't create a
tagger header when creating a signed tag?  WTF?

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