Bug#685506: debian-policy: Please add field Files-Excluded to machine readable copyright files definition
Hi,
Am Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 11:25:31PM +0100 schrieb Bill Allombert:
> > > + <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.
That's true for the introductory sentense. Its not really fair to cut
the real point
+ to document the removal of these files from the original upstream
+ source. This allows others to understand or audit how the source
+ distribution in Debian is derived from the upstream source.
which should be mentioned in policy.
> 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.
Did we ever promised this?
I personally would rather think that excluding files from the upstream
source is a pretty good reason to make DEP5 mandatory *for these cases*.
Besides a sensible way of documentation it saves maintainer time to
simply use uscan to obtain a proper tarball.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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