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Bug#761199: marked as done (lintian: false positive of wildcard-matches-nothing-in-dep5-copyright if files are removed by a Debian patches)

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has caused the Debian Bug report #761199,
regarding lintian: false positive of wildcard-matches-nothing-in-dep5-copyright if files are removed by a Debian patches
to be marked as done.

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Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.26
Severity: normal

[This bug is different than #761125.]

Dear Maintainer,
if the orig tarball contains some files, which are removed by a Debian patch, they still have to be mentioned in debian/copyright, but then lintian reports wildcard-matches-nothing-in-dep5-copyright.
I'm not sure if lintian could detect this easily, but if not, I think it would be good to mention this class of false positives in the tag description, e.g.: There can be legitimate reasons to mention files in debian/copyright, which are not present in the unpacked source, e.g. when they are removed by Debian patches. 

Best regards,
Andreas

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Control: forcemerge 844274 -1

Hi Andreas,

> [This bug is different than #761125.]

But it is the same as #844274, which was resolved recently and before
I saw this one.

Merging and closing.

Kind regards
Felix Lechner

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