Bug#560005: lintian: URLs and debian-changelog-line-too-long
Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> writes:
> With debian/chnagelog
> * debian/pod2man.mk
> - New file.
> * debian/rules
> - Add dpatch and manual page creation.
> - (clean): use dh_prep (lintian).
> * debian/patches/10-makefile.dpatch
> - Nef file
> - (LDFLAGS): new variable. Check problems with
> linker flag -Wl,--no-add-needed
> See http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/FTBFS#A2009-11-02Packagesfailingbecausebinutils-gold.2BAC8-indirectlinking
> Lintian reports warning:
> W: wmshutdown: debian-changelog-line-too-long line 28
> If possible, please ignore URLs in changelog
Lintian already ignores URLs for this check if they're the only thing on
the line. It seems reasonable to also allow them to be prefixed with
"See", since that's a common convention. I've made that change for the
next release.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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