[publican-list] [Bug 489626] New: Publican no longer allows for numbers in book titles

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Summary: Publican no longer allows for numbers in book titles

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=489626

           Summary: Publican no longer allows for numbers in book titles
           Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
           Version: 5.3
          Platform: i386
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: urgent
          Priority: urgent
         Component: publican
        AssignedTo: jfearn at redhat.com
        ReportedBy: irooskov at redhat.com
         QAContact: ecs-dev-list at redhat.com
                CC: mhideo at redhat.com, jwulf at redhat.com,
                    irooskov at redhat.com, publican-list at redhat.com,
                    dmison at redhat.com
    Classification: Red Hat
    Target Release: 5.3


Description of problem:
Publican no longer allows for numbers in book titles

For the JBoss EAP the only way to distinguish between CP releases is by placing
the version in the book title, this is because of Publican limitations with
other fields.

Now, with the latest update to Publican, this is not possible causing all prior
documentation for the JBoss EAP unbuildable for customers. 

If this fix does stay then not only will past documentation not be buildable,
but there will be no way to distinguish between CP releaes of JBoss products
meaning that the documentation on redhat.com/docs (and in the new documentation
website yet to be releaesd), every time there is a CP release the documentation
will have to be over-written with the new versions for the current CP. 

This further means that documentation for CP releases other than the current
release will no longer be avaliable to customers, which our customers have
already remarked in the past as a situation that would be unacceptable. 

I understand that Red Hat Enterprise Linux does not encounter this issue and
that JBoss should change their naming conventions, but that does not mean that
it is going to happen and because of this we do have to support the JBoss may
(at least for the moment) in order to support our customers.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Publican Version 0.43 Release 0.e15

How reproducible:

100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Checkout
https://svn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/projects/docs/enterprise/4.2.6/Getting_Started
2. in a terminal type the command 'make html-en-US' 
3. title error occurs and book no longer builds

Actual results:

The book does not build

Expected results:

Allow the book to build with numbers in the title. 

Additional info:

I understand that this update to Publican is considered a fix, however it could
do it before and did not affect anyone adversely so I cannot see any harm in
allowing it to be able to do it again.

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