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29.0.50; Have auth-source-pass behave more like other back ends

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From: "J.P." <jp <at> neverwas.me>
To: 58985-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Damien Cassou <damien <at> cassou.me>, Björn Bidar <bjorn.bidar <at> thaodan.de>, emacs-erc <at> gnu.org, Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>, Akib Azmain Turja <akib <at> disroot.org>
Subject: bug#58985: 29.0.50; Have auth-source-pass behave more like other back ends
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2022 06:30:09 -0800

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"J.P." <jp <at> neverwas.me> writes:

> Because I am easily swayed (or maybe just a liar), I've gone ahead and
> enabled it by default [1]. I've also informed Nicolas Petton of the
> change. I guess Björn was too busy or annoyed by my pestering to keep
> up, which is understandable.
>
> Thanks, everyone, for your help with this (especially Akib, who I pray
> will consider contributing to ERC in the future). And please remember to
> complain if you encounter any related ugliness. In the meantime, I am
> closing this bug.

A couple updates for anyone who cares:

1. As you may have noticed, due to various complaints here on the
   tracker, the new option `auth-source-pass-extra-query-keywords' is
   now disabled by default.

2. The changes currently installed contain a bug involving spaces in
   file names. Basically, all other back ends allow spaces in an entry's
   user and host fields. The second (throwaway) patch below demonstrates
   this, and the first attempts to make things right.

In my mind, item #2 is a bug that needs fixing on the release branch,
and I plan on doing so in the coming days. If there are questions or
concerns, please let them be known. Thanks.

[0001-Allow-spaces-in-auth-source-pass-match-regexp.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

[0002-POC-Demo-spaces-in-hosts-users-among-auth-source-bac.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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