Re: cargo-auditable and Debian

[kpcyrd <kpcyrd@archlinux.org>]

On 8/24/25 11:19 PM, NoisyCoil wrote:
> As far as I know, this is already fixed in lintian [1]. But even if it 
> wasn't, what do you mean by "it doesn't scale"? Btw, that's a non- 
> release-critical error, it can be both overridden [2] or ignored [3], 
> and the field will still show up in `apt info`.
>
>
> [1] https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/commit/ 
> f8d3f94da69d810336e0ee81c1ca0b6f38c38d33
>
> [2] https://salsa.debian.org/rust-team/debcargo-conf/-/ 
> blob/5a113d100a07fbe2b8793f191054abc2470b9cf4/src/broot/debian/ 
> broot.lintian-overrides
>
> [3] https://udd.debian.org/lintian-tag/field-too-long?affected=yes

I see, the 'policy violation' part sounded like it's a non-optional 
error, causing packages exceeding the 5k marker to be excluded from a 
release.

Thanks for clearing that up. :)

cheers,
kpcyrd