Hey, I would like to weigh in on this issue.
Reformatting third party licences to fit nicely into 80 characters per line is troublesome and error-prone, not to mention the slippery slope of reformatting in general - i.e. where does one stop, re-indenting bullet point lists or re-aligning section titles? Because of these problems I make a habit of including licence text strictly verbatim in debian/copyright as the formatting and length of some licences can be complex and large. Take this debian/copyright as a specific example: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/python-apps/packages/planet-venus/trunk/debian/copyright?op=file&sc=1 This generates the following warnings: W: planet-venus: debian-copyright-line-too-long line 74 W: planet-venus: debian-copyright-line-too-long line 82 W: planet-venus: debian-copyright-line-too-long line 108 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. Best, -- Noah Slater, http://bytesexual.org/nslater -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
