Bug#1115378: lintian: false positive very-long-line-length-in-source-file for Markdown files

[Rafael Laboissière <rafael@debian.org>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.124.0
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

When checking the octave-statistics package, Lintian complains with:

    X: octave-statistics source: very-long-line-length-in-source-file 632 > 512 [README.md:17]

The README.md contains documentation in the Markdown format. It is 
usual for Markdown format to have each paragraph in a long line.

Would it be possible to exclude Markdown files (and other formats for 
documentation files, eventually) from the 
very-long-line-length-in-source-file check?

Best,

Rafael Laboissière