Bug#942493: lintian: Complain of too long header fields

2019-11-08 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi Felix Am 09.11.19 um 00:27 schrieb Felix Lechner: >> Given that systemd-tests-dbgsym is an autogenerated package, there isn't >> really something that can be done to reduce the number of characters, or >> is there? > > Unless there is a flag that indicates autobuilding, we could exempt > all

Bug#942493: lintian: Complain of too long header fields

2019-11-08 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi, On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 2:57 PM Michael Biebl wrote: > > > 1/ emit a warning when a field is larger than say 16K (somehow to force > >the maintainer to think twice whether's he's doing something > >reasonable) > > > > 2/ emit an error when a field is larger than 200K (it breaks

Bug#942493: lintian: Complain of too long header fields

2019-11-08 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi On Thu, 17 Oct 2019 09:51:39 +0200 =?utf-8?q?Rapha=C3=ABl_Hertzog?= wrote: > Package: lintian > Version: 2.27.0 > Severity: wishlist > > Based on the problem discovered in #942487 where a Provides line of more > than 256K slipped in the archive, I believe it would be nice if lintian > could:

Bug#942493: lintian: Complain of too long header fields

2019-10-17 Thread Raphaƫl Hertzog
Package: lintian Version: 2.27.0 Severity: wishlist Based on the problem discovered in #942487 where a Provides line of more than 256K slipped in the archive, I believe it would be nice if lintian could: 1/ emit a warning when a field is larger than say 16K (somehow to force the maintainer to