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Bug 399871 - rpmlint does not know how to compute line lenghts
Summary: rpmlint does not know how to compute line lenghts
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: rpmlint
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
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Assignee: Ville Skyttä
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: F9Target
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-11-26 18:53 UTC by Nicolas Mailhot
Modified: 2007-12-21 21:08 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: 0.82-2.fc8
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2007-12-21 21:08:25 UTC
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Description Nicolas Mailhot 2007-11-26 18:53:44 UTC 
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
Comment 1 Ville Skyttä 2007-11-27 07:40:47 UTC 
Reproducer?
Comment 2 Nicolas Mailhot 2007-11-27 10:50:47 UTC 
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)
Comment 3 Ville Skyttä 2007-11-27 20:29:17 UTC 
Fixed upstream, will be in the next release.
http://rpmlint.zarb.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/changeset/1385
Comment 4 Nicolas Mailhot 2007-11-27 21:43:01 UTC 
Thanks!
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2007-12-07 21:33:26 UTC 
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'
Comment 6 Nicolas Mailhot 2007-12-08 10:13:46 UTC 
Works fine, thanks for the fix!
Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2007-12-21 21:08:20 UTC 
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.
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