diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 9557df4ed..6358f0fa1 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -733,6 +733,7 @@ linux (4.19.143-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
     (CVE-2020-15780)
   * [rt] Update to 4.19.142-rt63
   * net/packet: fix overflow in tpacket_rcv (CVE-2020-14386)
+  * debian/tests/python: pycodestyle: Increase max-line-length to 100.
 
  -- Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>  Tue, 04 Aug 2020 16:33:40 +0200
 
diff --git a/debian/tests/python b/debian/tests/python
index 3f1f8c7e8..c743f21ef 100755
--- a/debian/tests/python
+++ b/debian/tests/python
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ sources="$AUTOPKGTEST_TMP/sources"
 echo "I: Running pycodestyle..."
 # Ignore E126,E226,W503 (ignored by default) and also E127,W291 which
 # give false positives.
-if ! xargs pycodestyle --ignore E126,E127,E226,W291,W503 < "$sources"; then
+if ! xargs pycodestyle --max-line-length=100 --ignore E126,E127,E226,W291,W503 < "$sources"; then
     # pycodestyle only writes to stdout
     echo >&2 "E: pycodestyle detected problems"
 fi