On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 01:37:13PM +0200, Johannes Schauer wrote: > Hi, > > Quoting Jakub Wilk (2015-09-01 12:22:22) > > See #748465. Some people abuse debian/copyright for excluding files for > > reasons unrelated to DFSG... > > My recommendation is to never use Files-Excluded. > > What is your recommendation then? > > > It's a broken design. > > I would argue: so is the whole format of debian/watch. It would've been a much > better idea to have this file in deb822 format so that it would be easily > extensible. In that case we could now just add the Files-Excluded field to > debian/watch and be done with it. Surely, in theory you could also make > another > "opts" argument for uscan but putting path wildcards in the current > debian/watch format will surely not be pretty...
I agree, the d/watch format is ugly, hard to extend and whatnot.
Though there is no real maintainer for uscan, since it's just a script
in devscripts; furthermore several people complained about the current
uscan implementation, so I think a lot people would welcome a rewrite
of it and a new format version 4. Maybe with new feature such as
multiple tarballs support (somebody is adding that to the version 3
format, and I fear the results), a better and less error prone syntax,
Files-Excluded in a meaningful place, etc, etc.
IOW: patches welcome.
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