Bug#1014255: Long lines should also be ignored from non-code text files
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
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