On Fri, May 29, 2026 at 09:54:25AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I am glad to see the documentation of Files-Excluded moving forward. > > In 2012 (#685506#10) I recommeded to wait and in 2013 (#685506#55) I > wrote in a reply to Andreas: > > > This field was not my favorite solution to the problem, but experience > > showed that your solution was implemented, used, and unchallenged. > > 13 years later, no alternative has emerged. Moreover, Andreas made the > important point that it is relevant to document in `debian/copyright` > which files are removed from the upstream sources that we point to in > the same file. > > In addition, `uscan` has a `--copyright` argument to use a custom > location for the `debian/copyright` file and developers who do not wish > to use the machine-readable copyright format can write their own package > update scripts that take advantage of this option.
Is it possible to set the copyright file inside the debian/watch file ? The man page suggests this is not possible. Cheers, -- Bill. <[email protected]> Imagine a large red swirl here.
