Lintian tag: too-long-extended-description-in-templates

Type: warning

Description (from lintian-explain-tags)

Some debconf interfaces cannot deal very well with descriptions of more
than about 20 lines, so try to keep the extended description below this
limit.

Please refer to Section 6.5.3.2 of the Debian Developer's Reference for
details.

Visibility: warning
Show-Always: no
Check: debian/debconf

Affected packages

source version binary tag type tag information count
efingerd 1.6.7-1 efingerd/1.6.7-1+b2 warning too-long-extended-description-in-templates efingerd/allow_files [templates:4] 9
gpm 1.20.7-11 gpm/1.20.7-11 overridden too-long-extended-description-in-templates gpm/type [templates:256] 9
greylistd 0.9.0.3+nmu1 greylistd/0.9.0.3+nmu1 warning too-long-extended-description-in-templates greylistd/autoconfig_notdone_exim4 [templates:77] 1
open-iscsi 2.1.10-1 open-iscsi/2.1.10-1 warning too-long-extended-description-in-templates open-iscsi/remove_even_with_active_sessions [templates:4] 9
resolvconf 1.92 resolvconf/1.92 warning too-long-extended-description-in-templates resolvconf/link-tail-to-original [templates:269] 1