Hi, On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 2:57 PM Michael Biebl <bi...@debian.org> wrote: > > > 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)
Lintian currently issues only a single tag---an error---for any field value exceeding 5000 characters. > > 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). Lintian currently issue the tag for all files. > this now triggers an error in systemd: > E: systemd-tests-dbgsym: field-too-long 'Build-Ids' (8568 chars > 5000) > > 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? Unless there is a flag that indicates autobuilding, we could exempt all packages ending in -dbgsym. Alternatively, we could exempt the field Build-Ids. Or, we could except Build-Ids only in dbgsym packages. Please let us know. Kind regards, Felix Lechner
