On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 23:19 +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > As I said I agree that there's a good point in saying people should keep > descriptions to a minimum. In this specific case I inherited a debconf > template from the previous maintainer, and it listed a step-by-step plan > to resolve a situation. Due to the formatting this exceeded 20 lines. > I've now shortened it to be under 20 lines due to some less details in > the plan. I'm not sure though that this is the best way: I've now made > things less clear for users. This because I thought there was some kind > of actual fixed limit. Maybe this was not clear: the difference in wording in the devref is also relevant for overriding. If there's a physical limit, it must be a Lintian error and overriding it is not sensible. However, if it's a social limit, there may just be a situation where longer than 20 lines is actually better than shorter, and an override may be acceptable. Of course as with any other lintian warnings, those overrides should only be added in exceptional cases, but they might exist. Thijs
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