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[SCM] Debian package checker branch, master, updated. 2.4.2-22-g8d5bfe8



The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 50a2654b3c14a2fd26c5a849ffdb0a2f3f01fe98
Author: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Jul 25 15:48:40 2010 -0700

    Downgrade severity of description-too-long
    
    This is an aesthetic issue with documentation formatting, so while it's
    clearly an error and should be fixed, that's what the certainty is for,
    not the severity.  minor/certain will still make it a warning.

diff --git a/checks/description.desc b/checks/description.desc
index 7bd2a71..26b6043 100644
--- a/checks/description.desc
+++ b/checks/description.desc
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ Info: The description contains a line starting with a dot (.). This is
 Ref: policy 5.6.13
 
 Tag: description-too-long
-Severity: important
+Severity: minor
 Certainty: certain
 Info: The first line of the "Description:" must not exceed 80 characters.
 Ref: policy 3.4.1
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 8803dd6..4402c70 100755
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ lintian (2.4.3) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * checks/changelog-file{,.desc}:
     + [RA] apt-listchanges has been fixed, so drop the check for NEWS
       files ending in a trailing blank line.  (Closes: #586816)
+  * checks/description.desc:
+    + [RA] Downgrade description-too-long to minor severity to match bug
+      reporting standards for formatting bugs.  (Closes: #587837)
   * checks/files:
     + [RG] Detect embedded copies of HTMLPurifier.
     + [RG] Detect embedded copies of the Strophe javascript library.
diff --git a/t/tests/description-general/tags b/t/tests/description-general/tags
index 0e80345..5775813 100644
--- a/t/tests/description-general/tags
+++ b/t/tests/description-general/tags
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 E: description-general-2: description-contains-tabs
-E: description-general-2: description-too-long
 E: description-general-3: description-synopsis-is-empty
 E: description-general-4: description-synopsis-is-duplicated
 E: description-general-empty: extended-description-is-empty
@@ -11,6 +10,7 @@ I: description-general-3: using-first-person-in-description line 5: I
 I: description-general-4: capitalization-error-in-description debian Debian
 I: description-general: description-synopsis-might-not-be-phrased-properly
 W: description-general-2: description-starts-with-leading-spaces
+W: description-general-2: description-too-long
 W: description-general-2: possible-unindented-list-in-extended-description
 W: description-general-3: extended-description-line-too-long
 W: description-general-4: description-contains-homepage

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