Subject: bug#69402: 28.3; checkdoc does not check for docstrings wider than 80 characters

From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2025 00:44:02 -0600

severity 69402 wishlist
tags 69402 wontfix
close 69402
thanks

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> From: Tim Landscheidt <[email-masked]>
>> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2024 08:12:17 +0000
>>
>> IMHO, checkdoc should check that docstrings are no longer
>> than 80 (or byte-compile-docstring-max-column) characters.
>
> It does.  Add one more long line to the doc string, and you will see
> it.

I think we would take a patch to fix this minor inconsistency, but it's
not something that we will invest any time in fixing.

I'm therefore closing this bug report now.  Sorry.