Bug#1145300: Control file that crashes cme fix dpkg-control

[Dominique Dumont]

Hi

On Monday, 24 August 2026 01:13:09 Central European Summer Time you wrote:
>     In config class 'Dpkg::Control::Binary', (location:
> binary:"r-cran-cftime" Description) element 'Description' (level normal)
> has a configuration model error: Too many fix loops: check code used to fix
> value or the check
> 
> Surely there is a line that is too long anyway, but it would be great if
> cme would fix it :)

I'm pretty sure that cme is choking on this line found in the description from the control file:

 <https://cf-convention.github.io/Data/cf-conventions/cf-conventions-1.13/cf-conventions.html#time-coordinate>.

I think we have 2 choices:
- split the line, which would break the URL
- avoid splitting lines without spaces

I think the latter is better even if this does not fix too long lines in control files. (I  guess I could add a warning without fix in this case).

What do you think ?

All the best

Dod
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