Bug#996740: Consider having very-long-line-length-in-source-file ignore autotools files
Control: severity -1 important
Hi Russ,
On Sun, Oct 17, 2021 at 3:57 PM Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:
>
> how much
> (excellent!) work has been done to try to make Lintian's code flow
> simpler
Thank you for your kind words!
> I suspect a lot of
> packages are going to encounter them (presumably both will trigger on
> every package that includes a copy of the current version of libtool,
> which is most library packages using Automake)
We can now grant summary exceptions to package families. They are
called screens (which mask hints). [1] They actually simplify the
checks and are beautiful little things!
> an exception for autotools files would be warranted?
Yes, the exception is probably warranted. If it's okay with you,
however, I will postpone the decision until the cruft check, which
issues the offending tag, is fixed. It is currently malfunctioning.
[2] Thank you!
Kind regards
Felix Lechner
[1] https://lintian.debian.org/screens
[2] https://bugs.debian.org/993613
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