[Bug 27878] New: some generated comments are so wide they can't be parsed by flex (for Vala bindings)

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27878

           Summary: some generated comments are so wide they can't be
                    parsed by flex (for Vala bindings)
           Product: Telepathy
           Version: git master
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: tp-glib
        AssignedTo: telepathy-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: travis.reitter at collabora.co.uk
         QAContact: telepathy-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
            Blocks: 27792


Specifically, the full-escaped-HTML-document-in-a-single-line comments in
_gen/gtypes.h can be too large to fit in flex's parse buffer.

Vala's vala-gen-introspect depends upon flex to generate an XML file to
represent the content of headers, which is a major part of the bindings
generation process.

The simplest option seems to be to just break the HTML document comments into
reasonably-sized lines (I'm not sure what the exact limit is, but it's well
over 100 characters).

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