Bug#1021207: lintian: Please reconsider the type and size of field-too-long
Package: lintian
Version: 2.115.3
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: team+tryton-team@tracker.debian.org
Dear Maintainers,
I was hit by
E: tryton-modules-all: field-too-long Depends (5604 chars > 5000)
N:
N: The length of the specified field is too long.
N:
N: Overly-long fields not only can break some tools tools (eg.
reprepro(1))
N: they can waste space as they are shipped to all users.
N:
N: Please reduce the number of characters.
N:
N: Please refer to Bug#942493 for details.
N:
N: Visibility: error
N: Show-Always: no
N: Check: fields/length
The one and only purpose of tryton-modules-all is to list all
available Tryton modules in Depends (or Recommends, but that shouldn't
matter). For now I have added a lintian-override, but of course I don't
want to break infrastructure.
Looking at #942943 and #942487 it looks as if the issue with reprepro
should be mitigated with
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/reprepro/-/commit/7cb8fcf53c077467c4f38b5a48f706e7b5f75f4c
So I am asking for re-evaluation and/or advice
- if this limitation still stands?
- if the former is true this shouldn't be rather a warning than an
error?
- if the former is true the only way out is to split the Depends into
sub-packages?
--
Mathias Behrle
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