Long strings in debconf templates (in the short description)

[Henrique M Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>]

Hello fellow developers,

I wonder how strict is the "about 50 characters or so" limitation on the
short description for a debconf template is?

I ask this because some translators seem to be fond of tacking long things
in there.  This has happened to some fetchmail templates, for example.

Should I just refuse the template and ask the translator to somehow shorten
the offending text, or use the template anyway?

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh

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