Dear Maintainer,

I was wondering, why my lintian overrides did not work as expected. Then I
found out that the named test does not generate reproducible results.

Test suite:

hille@sid-amd64:~$ dget -d https://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/t/texinfo/texinfo_7.0.1-2.dsc
<snip>
All files validated successfully.
hille@sid-amd64:~$ lintian --tag-display-limit 0 --pedantic -I texinfo_7.0.1-2.dsc > ttt1
hille@sid-amd64:~$ lintian --tag-display-limit 0 --pedantic -I texinfo_7.0.1-2.dsc > ttt2
hille@sid-amd64:~$ diff ttt1 ttt2 |wc -l
8
hille@sid-amd64:~$ diff ttt1 ttt2
33c33
< P: texinfo source: very-long-line-length-in-source-file 1493 > 512 [tp/t/results/formats_encodings/at_commands_in_refs_utf8.pl:17317]
---
72c72
< P: texinfo source: very-long-line-length-in-source-file 617 > 512 [tp/t/results/sectioning/section_in_unnumbered_info.pl:6548]
---

Hilmar

Hi Hilmar,

I can no longer reproduce this with latest lintian. Is it still an issue?

Thanks
Nilesh

On 9/28/25 11:02, Nilesh Patra wrote:

Hello Nilesh,
The lintian does not complain any more about
"very-long-line-length-in-source-file" at least for texinfo. I've
removed the overrides and now the warnings + pedantic messages are gone.
Not sure if the test was removed...but currently this is the most likely
theory.

Hilmar

They were not removed, maybe the files were instead fixed.

I tried tiwh the 7.0.1-2 version from snapshot

$ dget -d https://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20221221T031939Z/pool/main/t/texinfo/texinfo_7.0.1-2.dsc

And I am getting reproducible output every time I tried. I believe this would have been flagged
in many packages if the output is not consistent. If this bug is not reproducible with laterst
lintian anymore, I'd like to close this.

Am 28.09.2025 um 19:07 schrieb Nilesh Patra:

Hello Nilesh,

The test is experimental now. After calling lintian using -E the test
again is executed and the results are reproducible.

Closing.

Hilmar