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Bug#883557: lintian: detect files present in the upstream tarball that match Files-Excluded patterns



Package: lintian
Severity: wishlist

It would be great if lintian could detect inconsistencies between
Files-Excluded in debian/copyright and the files in the upstream
tarball. The files in the tarball should never match the patterns
listed in the Files-Excluded field because uscan should have removed
them when repacking the tarball. If there are files that match, then
this is a sign that the maintainer didn't do the required repacking,
possibly because they used a very old uscan or didn't use uscan at all.

-- 
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

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