The question is if the long lines in these HTML files are actually indications that the HTML files are not the original source. This usually happens in one of two cases.
1. The files have been minified. 2. The files were originally created in another format and converted to HTML. Sometimes HTML files naturally have long lines. If you look at the descriptions of the lintian warnings, they acknowledge that this is an imperfect check that will result in some false-positives. If that is the case, the HTML files are the original source, and they have not been minified, then you can override these warnings with a description as to why. On Tuesday, February 20, 2024 9:08:17 AM MST Shriram Ravindranathan wrote: > Hello mentors, > > I am getting a few lintian "source-is-missing" errors for some HTML > files. These HTML files are infact present in the source code but they > have too many lines which triggers a > "very-long-line-length-in-source-file" lintian tag and that in turn > causes the "source-is-missing" error. > > Most of the info I could find in the policy manual and in the forums > pertained to binary files that were included in the source, the strategy > these resources suggested were > 1. Repack upstream tar with the source code of these files > 2. Add the source code to the d/missing-sources directory > > I don't think either of these are viable options in my case. I was > wondering whether it would be okay to suppress these errors. Is there > any other way to solve this? > > -- > Shriram Ravindranathan > -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org
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