Felipe Sateler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> What bothers me is that although I have a line "blah is copyright by
> joe", lintian is still complaining. After all, the different modules
> have different copyrights.  I see that the regex is not case insensitive
> and thus checks for Copyright but not copyright, which would have
> avoided the warnings in my case.

Ah, yes, I missed that you also had that line.  Yes, the fix for the other
bug already reported will take care of that.

> For the other cases, can't perl be made to read more than one line per
> pattern?

It can, but that also leads to false negatives.  I think it's better the
way that it is, once the case insensitivity is fixed and it's a bit more
accepting about (c) bits when there's an intervening newline.

-- 
Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED])               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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