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Re: Support of usertag for the "guix" package?


From: Maxim Cournoyer
Subject: Re: Support of usertag for the "guix" package?
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2020 22:57:16 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux)

Hello comrades,

Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:

> Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:
>
> Hi Glenn,
>
>> sub is_valid_user in /usr/share/perl5/Debbugs/User.pm is locally patched
>> to not insist that "user" be an email. Instead it requires at least 5
>> characters, ie "emacs" is ok but "guix" is not. So you would change that
>> to 4 characters to accept "guix".

Thanks, that's the information we were missing :-).

> Thanks for this, I wasn't aware of that change. Just being curious:
> shouldn't we check rather for a valid package name? Remember, we have
> also a 3 character project ("sed") and a 2 character project ("fm").

It seems more correct to me to check for a known package name, FWIW.

Maxim



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