Bug#479651: lintian: Should catch long lines

[Antony Gelberg <antony@wayforth.co.uk>]

Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.46
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

It would be nice if lintian notified the user about long (non-wrapped) 
lines in relevant files such as debian/copyright and debian/control.

I know this is only a wishlist request, but hope that somebody can look 
at it.

Thanks,

Antony

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils         2.18.1~cvs20080103-4+b1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  diffstat         1.45-2                  produces graph of changes introduc
ii  dpkg-dev         1.14.18                 package building tools for Debian
ii  file             4.23-2                  Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gettext          0.17-2                  GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  intltool-debian  0.35.0+20060710.1       Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii  libparse-debianc 1.1.1-2                 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii  liburi-perl      1.35.dfsg.1-1           Manipulates and accesses URI strin
ii  man-db           2.5.1-3                 on-line manual pager
ii  perl [libdigest- 5.8.8-12                Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

lintian recommends no packages.

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