Bug#491685: debian-copyright-line-too-long is inconvenient

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 11:22 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> I'm aware of many packages that maintain their copyright file
> semi-automatically by including files shipped by upstream, and it seems
> to me that attempting to reformat these on the fly is going to be more
> trouble than it's worth.

I must admit that I hadn't considered (partially) generated copyright
files when adding the check, although in retrospect it should have
occurred to me (and I should have checked against a wider selection of
packages).

> lintian-info refers me to policy 12.5, but that policy section says
> nothing about line lengths, nor indeed does anything in chapter 12.

Indeed; I'd suspect that was a copy-n-waste error on my part. Thanks for
pointing it out.

Regards,

Adam