On Mon, Oct 03, 2022 at 07:57:36PM +0200, Mathias Behrle wrote: > E: tryton-modules-all: field-too-long Depends (5604 chars > 5000) > > <snip> > > Looking at #942943 and #942487 it looks as if the issue with reprepro > should be mitigated with > https://salsa.debian.org/debian/reprepro/-/commit/7cb8fcf53c077467c4f38b5a48f706e7b5f75f4c > > So I am asking for re-evaluation and/or advice > > - if this limitation still stands? > - if the former is true this shouldn't be rather a warning than an > error? > - if the former is true the only way out is to split the Depends into > sub-packages?
For what it's worth, we're seeing this error trigger in podman, for the Built-Using field (it's golang) Lintian already has exceptions for "package-list" and "description" (per #942493), and while we could also add "Built-Using" to the list, I kinda wonder if this is a game of a whack-a-mole and this heuristic should be revisited, especially in the light of the reprepro fix mentioned by Mathias above. Thanks, Faidon
