Bug#871957: [lintian] orig-tarball-missing-upstream-signature should exclude repacks

[Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>]

Hi Guido,

> >   Lintian can detect that the tarball was repacked by looking inside
> >   at the first few tar members - a repacked tarball is meant to
> >   contain only a foo_1.2.3.orig/ directory (devref §6.7.8.2.4)
[…]
> > Don't see a reference to filtering debian/copyright however?
> 
> That part is in #874663. It's in uscan's manpage:
> 
>      Files-Excluded or Files-Excluded-component stanzas are set in
>      debian/copyright to make mk-origtargz invoked from uscan
>      remove files from the upstream tarball and repack it.
>      See "COPYRIGHT FILE EXAMPLES" and mk-origtargz(1).
> 
> So if there's a Files-Excluded* in debian/copyright the upstream tarball
> was filtered.

Thanks. I've started abstracting things out here:

  https://anonscm.debian.org/git/lintian/lintian.git/commit/?id=13dee7b911b66e1f48d61401b17227bd48680115


Best wishes,

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