From 9aaa5c80ac5c4820c4eddf488fbb90ac6981a624 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jochen <jschoubben@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2026 19:35:14 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Accept the gate's recheck status mesh/repo-check among the
 owed contexts, so a pinned recheck is not refused (issue 1673)

---
 go/delivery/checker_test.go | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 go/delivery/gate.go         |  3 ++-
 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/go/delivery/checker_test.go b/go/delivery/checker_test.go
index eb79299..6b2f438 100644
--- a/go/delivery/checker_test.go
+++ b/go/delivery/checker_test.go
@@ -516,3 +516,29 @@ func TestCheckerOwedIsReadableByTheGatesReaderAndAnOldOwedReaderIgnoresNewFields
 		t.Errorf("a preview with a field of tomorrow: %v", err)
 	}
 }
+
+// 1673/AC2 (review): the gate's recheck owes a pending status=mesh/repo-check (mesh-catalog mesh-delivery-gate owed.go,
+// checks.go ctxRepo); its key and value round trip, and the checker's bucket still refuses it.
+func TestTheGatesRecheckStatusRoundTripsAndTheCheckersBucketRefusesIt(t *testing.T) {
+	key, err := OwedKey("novox/mesh-sdk", 36, "aaaa", "status=mesh/repo-check")
+	if err != nil || key != "novox/mesh-sdk.36.aaaa.status=mesh/repo-check" {
+		t.Fatalf("key = %q, %v", key, err)
+	}
+	if _, _, _, act, err := ParseOwedKey(key); err != nil || act != "status=mesh/repo-check" {
+		t.Errorf("parse = %q, %v", act, err)
+	}
+	o := Owed{Act: OwedStatus, Context: StatusContextRepoCheck, State: "pending", Target: "https://mesh.example/delivery/36", Text: "checking again"}
+	data, err := EncodeOwed(o)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if got, err := DecodeOwed(data); err != nil || !SameOwed(got, o) && got.Context != o.Context {
+		t.Errorf("round trip = %+v, %v", got, err)
+	}
+	if _, err := EncodeCheckerOwed(o); err == nil {
+		t.Error("the checker's bucket takes the gate's recheck status")
+	}
+	if _, _, _, err := ParseCheckerOwedKey(key); err == nil {
+		t.Error("a checker owed key of the recheck status accepted")
+	}
+}
diff --git a/go/delivery/gate.go b/go/delivery/gate.go
index 281ab13..18444c5 100644
--- a/go/delivery/gate.go
+++ b/go/delivery/gate.go
@@ -34,10 +34,11 @@ const (
 	StatusContextMergeGate     = "mesh/merge-gate"
 	StatusContextDelivery      = "mesh/delivery"
 	StatusContextDeliveryGroup = "mesh/delivery-group"
+	StatusContextRepoCheck     = "mesh/repo-check" // the gate's pending status of a recheck (mesh-delivery.recheck)
 	StatusContextCheck         = "mesh/check"
 )
 
-var statusContexts = []string{StatusContextMergeGate, StatusContextDelivery, StatusContextDeliveryGroup, StatusContextCheck}
+var statusContexts = []string{StatusContextMergeGate, StatusContextDelivery, StatusContextDeliveryGroup, StatusContextRepoCheck, StatusContextCheck}
 
 // AskKindMerge is the kind of the gate's ask for a group's merge, the first part of its key.
 const AskKindMerge = "merge"