Bug 484616

Summary: Wrap debuginfo packages description on 80 characters per line
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Milos Jakubicek <xjakub>
Component: redhat-rpm-configAssignee: Jon Masters <jonathan>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Milos Jakubicek 2009-02-09 01:37:53 UTC
Description of problem:

For long package names the automatically generated debuginfo package description exceeds 80 characters per line which results into an unnecessary error by rpmlint (E: description-line-too-long)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

rpm-4.6.0-1.fc10.x86_64

Comment 1 Milos Jakubicek 2009-02-09 14:24:30 UTC
Created attachment 331311 [details]
Proposed patch

Maybe it would be enough to wrap the line just before the package name -- see the very simple patch attached.

Comment 2 Panu Matilainen 2009-02-09 14:43:12 UTC
The description is just a free-form text blurb, rpmlint complaining about line lengths is just "arbitrary packaging policy" as far as rpm is concerned.
Putting the package name on a separate line seems like a reasonable minimal fix here (it works until you encounter a package whose name is > 80 characters)

For Fedora it's redhat-rpm-config that controls the -debuginfo package creation though.

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