#26: EPEL should enforce erratum title length
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Reporter: stbenjam | Owner: epel-wranglers
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: critical | Milestone:
Component: Policy problem | Version:
Resolution: | Keywords: errata
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Comment (by stbenjam):
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The issue is that it is coming across that you are asking is that Fedora
and EPEL change how they have been doing titles for 8->10 years because
you have a 255 character limit. So while RHEL fits into that, its upstream
does not and has not. Getting it changed will be a lot more yak shaving
and politics than using a quick fix.
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No, I'm asking EPEL and Fedora to change how they do things to make sense.
I have no problem making sure we handle long titles in Katello in a
sensible way instead of failing, and we will do that. I have no control
over Pulp, and I hope they do the same. But I don't see how you think it's
valid for EPEL and Fedora to abuse title to display something that's not
particularly useful to users, and a duplication of data that's already in
an erratum.
Really I know I don't have a leg to stand on - there's no defined schema
for updatainfo.xml that I know of, so if you want to make the titles the
complete works of Shakespeare, you're not breaking any rules.
That doesn't mean it's not ridiculous.
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