On 2023-08-02 15 h 01, Dr. Bas Wijnen wrote:
Hi, Axel writes that README.md and LICENSE are likely valid cases. I disagree. While I (and I expect many developers in Debian) are used to using short lines in text files, this is not that common for other people. Many will use the automatic word-wrap feature of text editors and write a whole paragraph on a single line. I don't think I should ask upstream to reformat their non-code text files; it's not a good use of their time, and also they would likely not even do it. Instead, I hope lintian can avoid emitting this tag for non-code text files (in particular: *.txt, *.html, *.md). Although CMakeLists.txt is probably an exception: that is code and it shouldn't contain long lines. I could add overrides, but I don't think this would be an appropriate case for that. But please let me know if it is. Thanks, Bas
Note that the 'very-long-line-length-in-source-file' was marked as 'experimental' in this commit [1] exactly for that kind of reason.
The default lintian mode doesn't use the 'experimental' tags and I would advise you not to include them if this tag is currently bothering you.
[1]: https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/commit/899bd1b683c479e166ebd465ff0ad101fbd04ee2
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