Bug#491685: debian-copyright-line-too-long is inconvenient
"Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk> writes:
> 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).
I'm not sure how strongly I want to argue in favor of keeping this check,
but adding | par to the copyright generation script may end up just doing
the right thing.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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