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

[Louis-Philippe Véronneau <pollo@debian.org>]

On 9/16/25 4:05 AM, Rafael Laboissière wrote:
> 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

Hello,

This tag is currently marked as "Experimental" (i.e. please don't use 
that in prod) because it generates so much false-positives.

It uses a "blocklist" model instead of an "allowlist" one, which I think 
would be more suitable.

As such, I'm not sure adding more restrictions is the way to go...

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