#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):
Bodhi's way of working is entirely targeted towards packages maintainers,
*every* erratum title is just the package list with some additional info
on the end (e.g. 'enhancement update'). I didn't realize that at first...
Most are just one package though so it generally doesn't cause an issue
and looks like the example you gave (NetworkManager bug fix update), but
others have dozens and dozens of packages. When Bodhi generates the
metadata as part of the repo mashing process, it's just dumping the title
used there into the updateinfo.xml title tag.
Is Pulp going to truncate the title now, or are you wanting this to get
changed on the Fedora side?
For Fedora to use descriptive short titles in Bodhi is going to be a big
change, and a political one. Although, Bodhi could truncate the package
list in the XML during the mashing process probably without any ill
effects (does anyone else consume the data?)...
https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/bodhi.git/tree/bodhi/metadata.py#n251
It would be nice if yum-security specified a schema so that we could
definitively point to it and say <title> must be < 256 characters...
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