Bug#942493: 5000 is a tad too small (was Re: lintian: Please warn about overly-long header fields)

To: Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>
Cc: 942493@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#942493: 5000 is a tad too small (was Re: lintian: Please warn about overly-long header fields)
From: Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de>
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 13:48:37 +0000 (UTC)
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Hi Chris,

>> […] long Description field
>
>That's actually a good point, I've left the limit at 5000 and simply
>allowed long "long descriptions".

great, thank you!

bye,
//mirabilos
-- 
„Cool, /usr/share/doc/mksh/examples/uhr.gz ist ja ein Grund,
mksh auf jedem System zu installieren.“
	-- XTaran auf der OpenRheinRuhr, ganz begeistert
(EN: “[…]uhr.gz is a reason to install mksh on every system.”)

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- Bug#942493: 5000 is a tad too small (was Re: lintian: Please warn about overly-long header fields)
  - From: Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de>
- Bug#942493: 5000 is a tad too small (was Re: lintian: Please warn about overly-long header fields)
  - From: "Chris Lamb" <lamby@debian.org>
- Bug#942493: 5000 is a tad too small (was Re: lintian: Please warn about overly-long header fields)
  - From: Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de>
- Bug#942493: 5000 is a tad too small (was Re: lintian: Please warn about overly-long header fields)
  - From: "Chris Lamb" <lamby@debian.org>

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