Re: Enabling uscan to simply remove files from upstream source

[Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>]

Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> writes:

> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 01:25:26PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote:
>> How about resolving the empty directory problem by permitting the
>> Files-Excluded to match directories?  Thus, if you want to remove the
>> docs/source/fonts/ hierarchy, you would instead write:
>> 
>> Files-Excluded:
>>    docs/source/fonts/
>
> You can certainly do this but this would leave you with the chance
> that docs/source/ remains as empty directory.

Ah, right, I see.  Then if somebody finds that to be a problem, the
maintainer can change Files-Excluded to be docs/source/, surely?  I'm
just trying to keep the complexity low.

/Simon