Re: default tar format for "make dist" and patch file length

[Philip McGrath <philip@philipmcgrath.com>]

On 11/19/21 09:54, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> skribis:
>> So, I guess I'm leaning towards making the guix lint check a little more
>> lenient.
>>
>> Thoughts?
> 
> That sounds even better, I’m all for it (changing (guix lint) + fixing
> the two remaining issues)!

It might also help to change the warning given by the check.

When a program called "lint" tells me that something is too long, I 
understand that to mean that what I've done is generally considered bad 
style, but there might be a very good reason to do it in some specific 
case. For example, I might exceed a line length guideline to avoid 
inserting linebreaks into a URL.

If instead `guix lint` is telling us about a hard limit that will break 
things, I think it should say so clearly.

-Philip