Hi On Thu, 17 Oct 2019 09:51:39 +0200 =?utf-8?q?Rapha=C3=ABl_Hertzog?= <hert...@debian.org> wrote: > Package: lintian > Version: 2.27.0 > Severity: wishlist > > Based on the problem discovered in #942487 where a Provides line of more > than 256K slipped in the archive, I believe it would be nice if lintian > could: > > 1/ emit a warning when a field is larger than say 16K (somehow to force > the maintainer to think twice whether's he's doing something > reasonable) > > 2/ emit an error when a field is larger than 200K (it breaks reprepro > above 256K) > > This should be applied to .deb headers and .dsc headers. (.changes headers > are less interesting as they are auto-generated without much control by > the maintainer, or are a simple copy of fields already present in other > files).
this now triggers an error in systemd: E: systemd-tests-dbgsym: field-too-long 'Build-Ids' (8568 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: Refer to https://bugs.debian.org/942493 for details. N: N: Severity: important, Certainty: certain N: N: Check: fields/length, Type: binary, udeb, source Given that systemd-tests-dbgsym is an autogenerated package, there isn't really something that can be done to reduce the number of characters, or is there? -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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