Bug#392587: lintian: doc-base check: shell glob not correctly expanded

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

retitle 392587 doc-base: clarify allowable shell glob patterns
severity 392587 wishlist
reassign 392587 doc-base
thanks

Currently, the doc-base documentation says the following about the Files
field:

     Files
          Space separated list of filenames or shell globs representing the
          files which constitute the documentation in this format.
          Required field.

Since the type of shell glob isn't specified, lintian assumes that this
means a POSIX shell glob and supports *, ?, and [] but not {,}.  Is that
the intention?  If so, could that be stated explicitly?  If not, could you
mention the specific wildcards that are supported and let me know so that
I can update lintian accordingly?

Thanks!

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