Bug#761199: lintian: false positive of wildcard-matches-nothing-in-dep5-copyright if files are removed by a Debian patches

[Andreas Cadhalpun <andreas.cadhalpun@googlemail.com>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.26
Severity: normal

[This bug is different than #761125.]

Dear Maintainer,

if the orig tarball contains some files, which are removed by a Debian 
patch, they still have to be mentioned in debian/copyright, but then 
lintian reports wildcard-matches-nothing-in-dep5-copyright.

I'm not sure if lintian could detect this easily, but if not, I think it 
would be good to mention this class of false positives in the tag 
description, e.g.:
There can be legitimate reasons to mention files in debian/copyright, 
which are not present in the unpacked source, e.g. when they are removed 
by Debian patches.

Best regards,
Andreas