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Package: lintian
Version: 2.115.3
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Dear Maintainers,
I was hit by
E: tryton-modules-all: field-too-long Depends (5604 chars > 5000)
N:
N: The length of the specified field is too long.
N:
N: Overly-long fields not only can break some tools tools (eg.
reprepro(1))
N: they can waste space as they are shipped to all users.
N:
N: Please reduce the number of characters.
N:
N: Please refer to Bug#942493 for details.
N:
N: Visibility: error
N: Show-Always: no
N: Check: fields/length
The one and only purpose of tryton-modules-all is to list all
available Tryton modules in Depends (or Recommends, but that shouldn't
matter). For now I have added a lintian-override, but of course I don't
want to break infrastructure.
Looking at #942943 and #942487 it looks as if the issue with reprepro
should be mitigated with
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/reprepro/-/commit/7cb8fcf53c077467c4f38b5a48f706e7b5f75f4c
So I am asking for re-evaluation and/or advice
- if this limitation still stands?
- if the former is true this shouldn't be rather a warning than an
error?
- if the former is true the only way out is to split the Depends into
sub-packages?
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Source: lintian
Source-Version: 2.128.0
Done: Louis-Philippe Véronneau <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
lintian, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Louis-Philippe Véronneau <[email protected]> (supplier of updated lintian
package)
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Hash: SHA512
Format: 1.8
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2025 19:00:24 -0500
Source: lintian
Architecture: source
Version: 2.128.0
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Lintian Maintainers <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Louis-Philippe Véronneau <[email protected]>
Closes: 896012 909267 931112 999785 1021207 1111513 1118442 1119083 1120737
1123580 1123984
Changes:
lintian (2.128.0) unstable; urgency=medium
.
[ Louis-Philippe Véronneau ]
* Refresh data sources - 2025-12-28
* Downgrade field-too-long from 'error' to 'warning'. Closes: #1021207
* Add debian/.gitlab-ci.yml to @KNOWN_LOCATIONS. (Closes: #1123984)
* Remove tag 'built-using-field-on-arch-all-package' (Closes: #999785)
.
[ Nilesh Patra ]
* Remove recommended-field check for "Priority:" field (Closes: #1111513)
* Remove bsdutils from essential package set check (Closes: #1118442)
* Add some missing team domains for team maintained packages and flagging
packages using alioth domain
* Do not check for missing-call-to-dpkg-maintscript-helper on udeb (Closes:
#1119083)
.
[ Rong Fu ]
* Add known-dists for eLxr
.
[ Luca Boccassi ]
* Downgrade hardening-no-fortify-functions to experimental (Closes: #931112)
.
[ Rafael Laboissière ]
* Prevent non-ar *.a files from triggering false positives in
unpack-message-for-{source,orig,deb-data} (Closes: #1120737)
.
[ Jeremy Bícha ]
* Remove library-not-linked-against-libc check (Closes: #896012, #909267)
* Remove stray-devhelp-documentation
.
[ Bas Couwenberg ]
* Fix FTBFS with dpkg 1.23.0. (closes: #1123580)
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