Bug#1021207: lintian: Please reconsider the type and size of field-too-long
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
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