Bug#954341: lintian: What's going on with "field-too-long Installed-Build-Depends"?
On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 08:57:05AM -0700, Felix Lechner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 8:03 AM Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@mapreri.org> wrote:
> >
> > field-too-long was added to prevent silliness in the archive. As such, it only makes sense for binary control fields and .dsc, nothing else.
>
> Why should fields in buildinfo and changes files be treated
> differently from fields elsewhere?
>
Because buildinfo and changes don't end up in Packages/Sources files.
Cheers,
Julien
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