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    gapplication: Tighten up application ID validation · 7c1f38b1
    Philip Withnall authored
    Tighten up the validation of application IDs so they are always exactly
    D-Bus well-known names. This is a slight change to the accepted format,
    but since anyone using the API with an application ID which was
    previously valid, but which was not a valid D-Bus well-known name, would
    have received an error from D-Bus when their application tried to
    register on the bus, I think this break is acceptable.
    
    It will affect any applications which have application IDs which are not
    valid D-Bus well-known names, and which use the G_APPLICATION_NON_UNIQUE
    flag. From a quick search in Debian Codesearch, no C applications use
    that flag.
    
    Update the documentation to use the rules from the D-Bus specification,
    including the latest advice discouraging use of hyphens:
    
    https://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-specification.html#message-protocol-names-bus
    
    
    
    Update the tests:
     • Add the examples from the documentation to validate them.
     • Especially the venerable 7-zip.org example.
     • Move a couple of tests from expected-failure to expected-success:
       they are valid D-Bus well-known names even if they’re a bit weird.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPhilip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
    
    https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=793400
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