Amend group-name parser to avoid forbidden forge-string characters

[stschiff]

Some of the group names that we've imported from the AADR contain symbols like < or others that trip up our parsing of forge strings.

Ideally we should have group names following alphanumeric symbols and _ and - and . or so, but not anything more exotic.

[stschiff]

I think that's something that you can work on, @dhananjaya93. Just check all group names and turn any symbols other than _, -, . or alphanumeric into underscores.

[dhananjaya93]

Got it. I will start working on it. Best , Dhananjaya

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[dhananjaya93]

I checked the all the group names and identified the characters to replace. I can replace them but how can I change the individual packages that already exist? Do I need to update all the .janno files of existing packages?

[nevrome]

I guess these issues are not present in every package, right? If so, then it would boil down to writing a script that loops through the package folders, replaces the .janno files and updates the POSEIDON.yml files (trident update).

[nevrome]

@AyGhal and I have fixed the problematic groups that existed now in #132.

Another question is, whether we should introduce some mechanism to prevent the creation of packages with such "broken" group names. This could be a future feature of trident.

[stschiff]

Well, we could parse them in Haskell using a parser that only allows a certain alphabet. That would then automatically complain. Though it would be a pretty brutal move.

[nevrome]

I like it. Better a painful but clear error message than obscure failures with specific sub-commands, right?

[stschiff]

OK, I just renamed this issue to make the pending ToDo clearer.