Hi, On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 23:32 +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > The debian-copyright-line-too-long complains about too long lines, even > if there's no chance to make the line shorter, as you can't break the > word. For example > > http://foo/bar/fuzz/foo/bar/fuzz/foo/bar/fuzz/foo/bar/fuzz/foo/bar/fuzz/foo/bar/fuzz/boo.html > is not possible to write in a different way. > So imho the check should be changed to complain only about lines which > consist of more than one word. Only lines matching something like > (^ *[^ ]+ +[^ ]*) should be checked for their length. The regexp should > be enhanced to match all white spaces probably...
We already do something similar when checking the length of changelog lines, allowing for common line starts; to be precise "^[\s.o*+-]*\S+$". I'll add that to the copyright check as well. Thanks for the suggestion, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]