Present simple vs. "Would"

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Are there any reasons to use would in such cases? Why not rephrase these passages in the simple present tense?

My version: Swift code has a column limit of 100 characters. Except as noted below, any line that exceeds this limit must be line-wrapped as described in Line-Wrapping.

My version: Fixed a bug where Room does not correctly detect the JDK version used to enable incremental annotation processor.

Solution 1:

There is a chance that the author may use would as an optative - assuming a possible future state of a noun. Archaic as the optative case may seem, it is commonly applied in less-formal conversation - almost suggesting an anthropomorphic ascription to an inanimate subject of a sentence. The word would can simply serve as a conditional marker and nothing more need be read into it. "If this, then that would be the case." "If it would have such and such attribute, then such and such will take place."