Re: [gentoo-dev] Illegal news item name

[Vlastimil Babka]

Zac Medico wrote:
> Vlastimil Babka wrote:
>> The question is what to do now, rename it? Users will then see it again,
>> and I don't know if there are even worse consequences.
>
> AFAIK, seeing it again is the worst that will happen. The cvs ->
> rsync script will ensure that the incorrectly named new item is
> deleted on the rsync side after it's removed from cvs.

Hi,

unfortunately this is what happens in current eselect-news.

# eselect news list
Unread news items:
  (none found)
Read news items:
  2009-04-18-java-config-wrapper-0.16
                            (no title available)
  2009-04-18-java_generation1_deprecation
                            Generation 1 Java Setup Deprecated

# eselect news read all
2009-04-18-java-config-wrapper-0.16
/usr/share/eselect/modules/news.eselect: line 92:
/usr/portage/metadata/news/2009-04-18-java-config-wrapper-0.16/2009-04-18-java-config-wrapper-0.16.en.txt:
No such file or directory

/usr/share/eselect/modules/news.eselect: line 99:
/usr/portage/metadata/news/2009-04-18-java-config-wrapper-0.16/2009-04-18-java-config-wrapper-0.16.en.txt:
No such file or directory
2009-04-18-java_generation1_deprecation
...

This is because the old entry stays in
/var/lib/gentoo/news/news-gentoo.read
Executing 'eselect news purge' will fix that, but obviously with the
side effect of purging everything else :)

So what to do? Fix eselect first and then do the rename? Rename now,
recommend purge, and fix eselect later? Update GLEP 42 to allow dots in
news item filenames? Any technical reason they are not allowed, except
for hypothetical compatibility (nothing broken was reported due to this
item yet).

(attached is the renamed version with bumped revision and note
explaining users that they might see this twice because it was renamed)

Thanks,
Vlastimil