[Fedora-packaging] rpmlint: no warnings on overly long changelog entries

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Thu Oct 24 08:42:14 UTC 2013


On 10/24/2013 09:48 AM, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:
>> I just noticed, rpmlint doesn't warn about overly long %changelog entries
>> anymore.
> I don't think it has ever done that.
I could have sworn, it once had done, but I would not want to exclude 
being wrong ;)
>   It does warn about "too long"
> summaries and description lines though.
>
So, what do we want to do about overly long changelog entries in general 
(FPG-wise) and about rpmlint?

* Do we want to have a limit? If yes, which?
* Can rpmlint (easily) be extended to warn about them?

Background of this question is this review request:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476234

Its %changelog contains %changelog entries up to ~300 chars.

Ralf



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