Package: dpkg
Version: 1.18.23
Severity: minor
Dear Maintainers,
It is documented in man dpkg that dpkg may reinclude and install
some directories in some --path-exclude= --path-include= combinations.
--path-exclude=glob-pattern
--path-include=glob-pattern
...
The glob patterns use the same
wildcards used in the shell, were ‘*’
matches any sequence of characters,
including the empty string and also
‘/’. For example, «/usr/*/READ*»
matches
«/usr/share/doc/package/README». As
usual, ‘?’ matches any single character
(again, including ‘/’). And ‘[’ starts
a character class, which can contain a
list of characters, ranges and
complementations. See glob(7) for
detailed information about globbing.
Note: the current implementation might
re-include more directories and
symlinks than needed, to be on the safe
side and avoid possible unpack
failures; future work might fix this.
...
This bug tracks the current issue and the potential future work. :-)
Cheers,
Balint
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Balint Reczey
Debian & Ubuntu Developer
