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


From: Michael Albinus
Subject: Re: Support of usertag for the "guix" package?
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2020 13:39:37 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello comrades,

Hi Max,

>>> 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.

I've applied a fix on the debbugs.gnu.org server, could you pls test?

Noam, I would like to sync this change of User.pm with your debbugs
repo. How could I do this?

> Maxim

Best regards, Michael.



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