Bug#910334: lintian: Please warn about redundant entries in Files-Excluded

[Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.107
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

Whilst we have:

  https://lintian.debian.org/tags/source-includes-file-in-files-excluded.html

… which triggers when a file specified in the Files-Excluded field in
debian/copyright exists in the source tree, we could also check for
seemingly-redundant entries such as:

  Files-Excluded: ./file-does-not-exist

This would catch typos and strange things such as #910330.


Regards,

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