Re: Bug#515856: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released
- To: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>, 515856@bugs.debian.org
- Cc: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>, Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>, Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>, Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu>, debian-devel@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Bug#515856: Debian Policy 4.1.4.0 released
- From: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
- Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2018 12:20:28 +0200
- Message-id: <[🔎] 20180703102028.GD29271@yellowpig>
- Mail-followup-to: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>, 515856@bugs.debian.org, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>, Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>, Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>, Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu>, debian-devel@lists.debian.org
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On Mon, Jul 02, 2018 at 04:40:43PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 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).
Files-Excluded requires to use the new copyright format, and is far less
powerful than a shell script. This is not a true replacement.
How many packages are using Files-Excluded ?
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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