The Versailles Treaty does not state that the barrel must be shortened, however,
as I said, the treaty countries did impose and long barrel lugers were deemed to be undesirable and they had to be turned in.
As examples of how this was accomplished
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DWM was prohibited from manufacturing military weapons after 1921, and was required to destroy their army-manufacture equipment. They were, however, allowed to manufacture pistols for the German and export commercial market. In the case of the Luger pistol, this was accomplished by simply limiting production to 7.65mm, with barrels shorter than the 100mm (four inches) which had been decreed as the delimiter between commercial and military weapons
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This is gathered from several documents and decrees from the IMKK, in association with the Versailles Treaty, but not strictly under the auspices of the Treaty itself.
Ed