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

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

Hi,

Noah Slater wrote, Thursday, August 07, 2008 2:52 PM

> I would like to weigh in on this issue.
[...]
> I do not think lintian should be raising any notices about 
> debian/copyright if
> only because the majority of it's content is beyond our control.

/Please/ read the bug logs before weighing in... :-)

This bug has been marked pending for a couple of weeks now; hopefully an 
upload to unstable isn't too far away. To quote from the message in the log 
immediately before yours:

# Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.33
# Fixed in commit 4b52a883ec06200e3b10d6fa90bd9b075c4799aa
#
#   Drop debian-copyright-line-too-long
#
# * checks/copyright-file{,.desc}:
#   + [ADB] Drop the "copyright line too long" check.  Most of the issues
#     it flags aren't easily fixable, particularly where the copyright file
#     is (semi)automatically generated.  (Closes: #491302, #491365, #491685)

Regards,

Adam