Bug#587837: lintian: tag ‘description-too-long’ should be severity ‘minor’

[Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.4.1
Severity: normal

Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:

> Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> writes:
> > Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:
>
> >> Anything about the one-line synopsis is, in practice, probably a
> >> minor severity bug even if it's over 80 columns, just because
> >> that's the bug severity used for documentation problems and things
> >> that are ugly but don't break the package.
>
> > Okay. Lintian reports ‘description-too-long’ as an error, with
> > “Severity: important”. Is that a bug in Lintian?
>
> Yeah, I think so.

As of version 2.4.1, the tag ‘description-too-long’ has these fields:

    Tag: description-too-long
    Severity: important

This should be changed to:

    Tag: description-too-long
    Severity: minor

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Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au>