Bug#685506: debian-policy: Please add field Files-Excluded to machine readable copyright files definition
On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 02:52:18PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
> Hello Joe,
> > + <para>
> > + These types of files, or any others that Debian does not want to
> > + include in our archive, must be stripped from the upstream tarball
> > + prior to uploading. The <varname>Files-Excluded</varname> field serves
This feature is orthogonal to the machine readable copyright format.
It should be possible to use it with the plain old copyright format too,
otherwise we are kind of renegating on our promise that the machine
readable copyright format be optionnal.
Cheers,
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Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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