Bug#942493: 5000 is a tad too small (was Re: lintian: Please warn about overly-long header fields)

2019-12-06 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi Aurelien, On Fri, Dec 6, 2019 at 1:03 PM Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > Is it also possible to allow "long Package-List"? Done in: https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/commit/43c29acbba043d33277ab0670234c7bd9c4077c9 Kind regards, Felix Lechner

Bug#942493: 5000 is a tad too small (was Re: lintian: Please warn about overly-long header fields)

2019-12-06 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On 2019-12-06 13:16, Felix Lechner wrote: > Hi Aurelien, > > On Fri, Dec 6, 2019 at 1:03 PM Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > > > Is it also possible to allow "long Package-List"? > > Done in: > > > https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/commit/43c29acbba043d33277ab0670234c7bd9c4077c9 Thanks fo

Bug#942493: 5000 is a tad too small (was Re: lintian: Please warn about overly-long header fields)

2019-12-06 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Hi, On 2019-11-12 09:46, Chris Lamb wrote: > Hi Thorsten, > > > […] long Description field > > That's actually a good point, I've left the limit at 5000 and simply > allowed long "long descriptions". Is it also possible to allow "long Package-List"? This is the error I now got on the glibc pack

Bug#942493: 5000 is a tad too small (was Re: lintian: Please warn about overly-long header fields)

2019-11-12 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Hi Chris, >> […] long Description field > >That's actually a good point, I've left the limit at 5000 and simply >allowed long "long descriptions". great, thank you! bye, //mirabilos -- „Cool, /usr/share/doc/mksh/examples/uhr.gz ist ja ein Grund, mksh auf jedem System zu installieren.“ -

Bug#942493: 5000 is a tad too small (was Re: lintian: Please warn about overly-long header fields)

2019-11-12 Thread Chris Lamb
Hi Thorsten, > […] long Description field That's actually a good point, I've left the limit at 5000 and simply allowed long "long descriptions". Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org 🍥 chris-lamb.co.uk `-

Bug#942493: 5000 is a tad too small (was Re: lintian: Please warn about overly-long header fields)

2019-11-11 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Hi Chris, >I'd prefer to keep it consistent otherwise we run the risk of tweaking >these forever and making it a little bit more transparent for both >developers and users. Bumping to 16,384 now.. ok, thanks! >> [..] my Description > >Not needed or relevant here but do please include concrete re

Bug#942493: 5000 is a tad too small (was Re: lintian: Please warn about overly-long header fields)

2019-11-11 Thread Chris Lamb
Thorsten, > Please reconsider: adjust limits depending on which field it is. I'd prefer to keep it consistent otherwise we run the risk of tweaking these forever and making it a little bit more transparent for both developers and users. Bumping to 16,384 now.. > [..] my Description Not needed o

Bug#942493: 5000 is a tad too small (was Re: lintian: Please warn about overly-long header fields)

2019-11-10 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Hi *, I understand that 5000 is a lot for most fields, but my Description field is a mere 7526 chars long, and the original request was for a warning above 16384 chars(? bytes?). Please reconsider: adjust limits depending on which field it is. bye, //mirabilos -- Stéphane, I actually don’t bloc