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Bug#286842: lintian: Avoid false positives



Package: lintian
Followup-For: Bug #286842

Is this working correctly? Take this from the csound package I'm
preparing (not in the archive yet):

Copyright notices:

    Csound is copyright (c)
        1986-1992 by the Massachussetts Institute of Technology
        1991-2008 by Barry Vercoe, John ffitch and others.

    CsoundAC (formerly CsoundVST) is copyright (c) 2001-2008 by Michael Gogins.

    The csound Manual is copyright (c):
        2003 by Kevin Conder
        2004-2005 by Michael Gogins

This is causing lintian to warn about copyright-without-copyright-notice

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils            2.18.1~cvs20080103-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  diffstat            1.45-2               produces graph of changes introduc
ii  dpkg-dev            1.14.16.6            package building tools for Debian
ii  file                4.23-2               Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gettext             0.17-2               GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  intltool-debian     0.35.0+20060710.1    Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii  libparse-debianchan 1.1.1-2              parse Debian changelogs and output
ii  liburi-perl         1.35.dfsg.1-1        Manipulates and accesses URI strin
ii  man-db              2.5.1-2              on-line manual pager
ii  perl [libdigest-md5 5.8.8-12             Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

lintian recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information



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