Bug#745743: lintian: Report when a Files-Excluded field is specified without a proper copyright-format

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

Control: tags -1 -patch

On 2014-04-24 19:04, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 2.5.22.1
> Severity: minor
> Tags: patch
> 
> The Files-Excluded field in debian/copyright is used to exclude files
> from our "not-so-pristine" upstream source. It is meant to discard
> non-DFSG files. The field will be ignored by uscan if the copyright
> file is not declared as following the format 1.0.
> 
> Note that I have not tested the patch I'm sending, I just somehow hope
> it works ;-)
> 
> [...]

Hi Gunnar,

Thanks for the proposed patch and sorry for the late reply.

Unfortunately it does not seem to work at first glance.  Mind you, I
only did a very quick test and I might have gotten the test wrong.

Please consider providing a test case for it.  On a related note, I
think it would make more sense to move the check to
checks/source-copyright.pm, since it got all the other DEP-5 related
checks (and also because it is a source-package check rather than a
binary-package check).

Thanks for considering.

~Niels