[lintian] 01/01: Update description of source-includes-file-in-files-excluded to clarify the potential problem and to reference the relevant wishlist bug against git-buildpackage.

[Chris Lamb <chris@chris-lamb.co.uk>]

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commit 4c475c4c8aca2611bdcc7a8d24f3d159eb6043c7
Author: Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>
Date:   Mon Dec 11 10:02:24 2017 +0000

    Update description of source-includes-file-in-files-excluded to clarify the potential problem and to reference the relevant wishlist bug against git-buildpackage.
---
 checks/source-copyright.desc | 8 ++++++--
 debian/changelog             | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/checks/source-copyright.desc b/checks/source-copyright.desc
index 37c7e4f..33eeee6 100644
--- a/checks/source-copyright.desc
+++ b/checks/source-copyright.desc
@@ -318,5 +318,9 @@ Certainty: possible
 Info: A file specified in the <tt>Files-Excluded</tt> header in
  debian/copyright exists in the source tree.
  .
- This usually indicates that the upstream tarball was not repacked as
- intended.
+ This might be a DFSG violation, the referenced files are probably not
+ attributed in <tt>debian/copyright</tt>, or the upstream tarball was simply
+ not repacked as intended. Alternatively, the field is simply out of date.
+ .
+ mk-origtargz(1) is typically responsible for removing such files. Support
+ in <tt>git-buildpackage</tt> is being tracked in #812721.
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index a2e2604..b69ff8b 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ lintian (2.5.63) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
       ELF binaries in $PATH. Host architecture binaries are generally not
       executable so such files are useless for cross builds.
       (Closes: #794295)
+  * checks/source-copyright.desc:
+    + [CL] Update description of source-includes-file-in-files-excluded
+      to clarify the potential problem and to reference the relevant
+      wishlist bug against git-buildpackage.
   * checks/python.pm:
     + [CL] Clarify that new-package-should-not-package-python2-module
       triggers when there is a single changelog entry as well as providing

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