Bug#685506: debian-policy: Please add field Files-Excluded to machine readable copyright files definition

[Christian Kastner <ckk@debian.org>]

On 2012-08-21 14:34:50 +0200 Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org> wrote:> I
would propose the following addition to
> 
>   http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
> 
> ----------------------- 8< ---------------------------------------------
> Files-Excluded
> --------------
> 
> Whitespace-separated list: list of patterns indicating files removed
> from upstream source.
It appears as if Files-Excluded in d/changelog has become a de facto
standard in the meantime, so I'd like to ping the Policy Team and ask
whether/when we can expect an official blessing of this standard :-)

I've been updating my crufty packages and lintian has repeatedly
reported debian-rules-contains-unnecessary-get-orig-source-target. Most
of my targets were indeed simple calls to uscan, but I used to maintain
a dedicated d/files-excluded file (which I'd pass on with the
--copyright-file option) just for the Files-Excluded data.

I moved everything to d/copyright now, but having this sanctioned
officially would be welcomed by us pedants.

Regards,
Christian