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Re: Package synopsis length limit



Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> writes:
> Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:

>> Anything about the one-line synopsis is, in practice, probably a minor
>> severity bug even if it's over 80 columns, just because that's the bug
>> severity used for documentation problems and things that are ugly but
>> don't break the package.

> Okay. Lintian reports ‘description-too-long’ as an error, with
> “Severity: important”. Is that a bug in Lintian?

Yeah, I think so.

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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