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

[Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>]

Hi Paul,

> It would be great if lintian could detect inconsistencies between
> Files-Excluded in debian/copyright and the files in the upstream
> tarball.

Good idea. I actually rejected liborcus (0.13.1-2) from NEW yesterday
with this inconsistency, resulting in:

  1 liborcus (0.13.1-3) experimental; urgency=medium
  2 
  3   * actually remove Files-Excluded: files...
  4   * debian/copyright: mention Markus Morhard (src/parser/win_stdint.h)
  5 
  6  -- Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>  Mon, 04 Dec 2017 17:33:59 +0100


Regards,

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