[gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/4] acct-user.eclass: make ACCT_USER_NAME writable

[Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org>]

The ACCT_USER_NAME variable is set to $PN by Gentoo policy. Prior to
this commit, it was also marked "readonly", preventing it from being
changed in an ebuild. In an overlay, and combined with the package
naming restrictions in the PMS, this has the unfortunate side effect of
prohibiting some otherwise-valid usernames. We drop the "readonly" to
allow those users to be managed (in overlays) using GLEP81 packages.

Signed-off-by: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org>
---
 eclass/acct-user.eclass | 7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/eclass/acct-user.eclass b/eclass/acct-user.eclass
index 66a4d6667888..a4fe5e9f5e34 100644
--- a/eclass/acct-user.eclass
+++ b/eclass/acct-user.eclass
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2019-2023 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 2019-2024 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 # @ECLASS: acct-user.eclass
@@ -58,12 +58,11 @@ inherit user-info
 # << Eclass variables >>
 
 # @ECLASS_VARIABLE: ACCT_USER_NAME
-# @INTERNAL
 # @DESCRIPTION:
 # The name of the user.  This is forced to ${PN} and the policy prohibits
-# it from being changed.
+# it from being changed. The variable is left writable for use in overlays;
+# package naming restrictions would prohibit some otherwise-valid usernames.
 ACCT_USER_NAME=${PN}
-readonly ACCT_USER_NAME
 
 # @ECLASS_VARIABLE: ACCT_USER_ID
 # @REQUIRED
-- 
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