SOURCES: pwdutils.login.defs - fix locale issue

[Radoslaw Zielinski]

In pld.cvs.commit you wrote:
> Author: glen                         Date: Mon Nov 29 10:29:25 2004 GMT
> Module: SOURCES                       Tag: HEAD
> ---- Log message:
> - fix locale issue
[...]
> +# Address this issue:
> +# http://lists.suse.com/archive/pwdutils/2004-Nov/0003.html
> +CHARACTER_CLASS                [[:alpha:]_][[:alnum:]_.-]*[[:alnum:]_.$-]\?

This is wrong.  As you were told on that mailing list, [:alpha:] is too
wide.  Group names must not contain characters, which fit in this class.
It is designed to be locale-dependent, while the constraint on how
should a valid group name look like is not.

In my opinion, [a-z] should always mean 26 characters, regardless of any
locale settings; if it doesn't, it's a bug.  So, you're fixing the issue
in the wrong place.

-- 
Radosław Zieliński <radek at karnet.pl>
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