Debian Bug report logs - #1014255
lintian: very-long-line-length-in-source-file should use file/magic to distinguish text from binary files

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Package: lintian; Maintainer for lintian is Debian Lintian Maintainers <[email protected]>; Source for lintian is src:lintian (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Affects: src:gnupg2

Reported by: Matt Barry <[email protected]>

Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2022 05:12:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: confirmed

Found in version lintian/2.115.2

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[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
On 2023-08-02 15 h 01, Dr. Bas Wijnen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Axel writes that README.md and LICENSE are likely valid cases. I disagree.
> While I (and I expect many developers in Debian) are used to using short lines
> in text files, this is not that common for other people. Many will use the
> automatic word-wrap feature of text editors and write a whole paragraph on a
> single line.
> 
> I don't think I should ask upstream to reformat their non-code text files; it's
> not a good use of their time, and also they would likely not even do it.
> 
> Instead, I hope lintian can avoid emitting this tag for non-code text files (in
> particular: *.txt, *.html, *.md). Although CMakeLists.txt is probably an
> exception: that is code and it shouldn't contain long lines.
> 
> I could add overrides, but I don't think this would be an appropriate case for
> that. But please let me know if it is.
> 
> Thanks,
> Bas
> 

Note that the 'very-long-line-length-in-source-file' was marked as 
'experimental' in this commit [1] exactly for that kind of reason.

The default lintian mode doesn't use the 'experimental' tags and I would 
advise you not to include them if this tag is currently bothering you.

[1]: 
https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/commit/899bd1b683c479e166ebd465ff0ad101fbd04ee2

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