Bug#1017966: lintian: Systematic false positives for source-is-missing in r-cran-* documentation
On Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 08:23:43AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> lintian is doing a check for overlong lines to guess for included
> JavaScript in html pages (and may be more). I now realised that several
> R packages are including
>
> img src="data:image/png;base64
>
> images that were generated by the source of the documentation which is
> always shipped with these docs. For example see the documentation of
> r-cran-patchwork[1]. It would be great if lintian would not report
> these false positives since the source is provided by upstream and the
> html file can be re-generated by an automated process.
I think this may be https://bugs.debian.org/1019980, but I filed that
separately just in case I'm wrong.
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Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwatson@debian.org]
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