On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 05:07:43PM +0100, Martina Ferrari wrote: > In the past months, I have been gradually switching all my online identities > to > my new name (Martina) and uid/nick (Tina). I have changed emails, GPG keys, > and > finally my Debian LDAP uid.
Hola Martina! Long time. :-) I did some research to get to the bottom of this issue. I'll be verbose describing what I found in hopes of it being useful for similar issues in the future. The source of your deadname is in a database that DDPO uses under the hood called carnivore[1]. I think your case might be very similar to #706260. In your case, names are being merged[2] because there are still some packages that use your deadname. In quants, qa.debian.org, if you check the file /srv/qa.debian.org/carnivore/uids you might see something like this: | martina ferrari <t...@debian.org>: email:t...@debian.org | martina ferrari <tin...@debian.org>: email:t...@debian.org | martín ferrari <tin...@debian.org>: email:t...@debian.org I haven't confirmed this—I don't have access to quants—but I tried it locally after running extract_data myself. You can explicitly state[3] that you don't want your name to be merged with your deadname, at the cost of unlinking the two uids. If you add[3] "Martina Ferrari", then the result will be: | martina ferrari <t...@debian.org>: email:t...@debian.org | | martina ferrari <tin...@debian.org>: email:tin...@debian.org | martín ferrari <tin...@debian.org>: email:tin...@debian.org This approach has the disadvantage that you'll stop seeing all packages in a single page; probably not what you want, so I kept digging. The developer.wml[4] file shows that it chooses the first name of all the indexed names. A possible solution is to somehow set your name at the beginning of that list. Another solution can be to state that you prefer a single name on the DB. I wrote a patch that implements this last solution, allowing you to state a preferred name. I'm still testing it, but I'll try to submit it for review on the weekend. nota bene: it's the first time I'm interacting with this codebase so I might be entirely wrong. \o/ [1] https://salsa.debian.org/qa/qa/-/blob/c850ab59/carnivore/README#L12-13 [2] https://salsa.debian.org/qa/qa/-/blob/c850ab59/carnivore/extract_data#L85 [3] https://salsa.debian.org/qa/qa/-/blob/c850ab59/carnivore/extract_data#L82 [4] https://salsa.debian.org/qa/qa/-/blob/c850ab59/wml/developer.wml#L1654
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