Package synopsis length limit (was: Effect of “should certainly do foo” in policy)

[Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>]

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?

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