rpmlint pretends it's counting characters, when in fact it's counting bytes, and its count is wrong when applied to lines containing non-trivial UTF-8, so it reports bogus line-too-long errors, that reviewers religiously ask to fix in reviews, which is a major waste of time for everyone involved. Please teach rpmlint to count characters properly or remove this stupid check rpmlint-0.81-1.fc8.noarch
Reproducer?
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=398781 for example. I wasted a lot of time trying to understand why rpmlint disagreed with fold and gedit before noticing in vim the column count was less than 79, but the byte count was more. (multiply by ~ 8 packages with that hi the same rplint bug)
Fixed upstream, will be in the next release. http://rpmlint.zarb.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/changeset/1385
Thanks!
rpmlint-0.82-2.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update rpmlint'
Works fine, thanks for the fix!
rpmlint-0.82-2.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.