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



Hello,

I really miss the mention of Files-Excluded in CF1.0 and when searching
found this bug.

On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 02:12:37PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 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.

Is this truly the case that all that's needed is a new patch? Can we get
an official ACK from one of the policy editors? I'd be happy to re-write
the original patch to apply against HEAD if that's all that is required.

--Joe

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