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Re: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released



Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

> Context: I have run into a few packages that used the +dfsg convention
> without documenting what they removed from the tarball and I was not
> able to locally update them. :(

This is one of the cases that now has a better solution and more standard
tools than the get-orig-source target, specifically Files-Excluded in
debian/copyright.  See the documentation of Files-Excluded in uscan(1).

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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