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

Ville Skyttä ville.skytta at iki.fi
Thu Oct 24 09:23:43 UTC 2013


On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:
> 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?

Offhand I think it'd be easy to add this in rpmlint. Go ahead and file
a bug if you'd like to see it, preferably along with suggestions for
the default limit (will be made configurable) AND text for the
extended explanation for the issue (rpmlint -I).


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