[Bug 1437286] Re: pastebinit on Debian don't give you paste.debian.net/id-number if username is longer than 10 characters

[Rolf Leggewie]

** Also affects: pastebinit (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Title:
  pastebinit on Debian don't give you paste.debian.net/id-number if
  username is longer than 10 characters

Status in pastebinit:
  Triaged
Status in pastebinit package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  pastebinit dosen't return paste-ID-link when username is longer than
  10 characters.

  when username has 11 or more characters, you get this in return

  http://paste.debian.net/

  According to their webpage, I get this error when trying to manually
  paste something with my username

  Could not add your entry to the paste database:

  Invalid format for name (no special chars, max 10 chars)

  when username has 10 or less characters, you get an actual paste in
  return:

  http://paste.debian.net/163493/

  the solution should be something like

  if paste is paste.debian.net
      then username shoud be shortned to 10 characters, by deleting any character bigger than, or 11 characters.

  A workaround for this, is to add the .pastebinit.xml file to the
  longusernameuser's home folder. Within the file, add this lines:

  <pastebinit>
      <author>shorter-than-10-characters-name</author>
  </pastebinit>

  save and run pastebinit again

  your username will be replaced with any word/name shorter or equal to
  10 characters

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