Hello, On Thu 14 Feb 2019 at 08:45PM +01, Christian Kastner wrote: > 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. Contrary to an older e-mail in this bug, the consensus among the Policy Editors is that we can add new, optional fields to the copyright-format spec without bumping its version number. This is because the addition of optional fields is backwards compatible. I have not read the whole thread, but a quick scan suggests that all we are waiting for here is for someone to write a patch against current Policy's master branch. -- Sean Whitton
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