[Fedora QA] #325: Update sync fails if update title is too long

[Fedora QA]

#325: Update sync fails if update title is too long
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 Reporter:  tflink                    |       Owner:  tflink
     Type:  defect                    |      Status:  new
 Priority:  blocker                   |   Milestone:  Fedora 18
Component:  Blocker bug tracker page  |     Version:  1.0
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 = bug description =
 If an update's title is too long, it won't fit into the database field
 (currently 2048 characters long) and the sync crashes prior to completing.

 [https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-20337/ A recent ocaml
 update caused this bug to surface]

 = bug analysis =
 At the moment, the tracker's sync operation fails 100% of the time since
 the previously mentioned ocaml update is marked as an NTH fix.

 = fix recommendation =

 This should be fixed properly, but at this point I'm just planning to do a
 dirty hack of checking the title's length against a hardcoded value and
 truncating it if it's too long.

 This is the wrong way to fix the issue and I suspect that it'll cause
 problems with link formation to bodhi but it needs to be fixed well enough
 now so that sync doesn't crash midway through.

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