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



On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 09:55:31PM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote:
>   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.

I'm concerned as to how you would go about checking for this.  You can't
quite check for non-existent files that shouldn't be existing anyway...

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