I raised this on 
https://lists.apache.org/thread/pj1csswgmdo924gp2myvbx73516dpk7c 
<https://lists.apache.org/thread/pj1csswgmdo924gp2myvbx73516dpk7c> as well.

> On 13. Sep 2022, at 13:38, Konrad Windszus <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> As part of the release check in 
> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/jackrabbit/check-release.sh the 
> provided source archive is compared with the downloaded git tag/svn export.
> Due a change in the default excludes of plexus-utils 
> (https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-utils/commit/e8a8433894eae9e8f82cbba4b903508362e9322a)
>  the files.gitattributes and .gitignore are no longer excluded by default.
> This affects e.g. the maven-assembly-plugin, which uses plexus archiver, 
> which itself uses plexus-utils (updated in 
> https://github.com/codehaus-plexus/plexus-utils/commit/e8a8433894eae9e8f82cbba4b903508362e9322a).
> 
> In general all packaging plugins which leverage the AbstractScanner from 
> plexus-utils (like maven-jar-plugin, maven-source-plugin, 
> maven-assembly-plugin) will no longer exclude those files, which makes e.g. 
> the src.zip archive contain those metadata files.
> 
> Currently that leads to issues like this when validating new releases:
> 
> "Only in ./target/jackrabbit-filevault-3.6.2/zip/jackrabbit-filevault-3.6.2: 
> .gitattributes
> Only in ./target/jackrabbit-filevault-3.6.2/zip/jackrabbit-filevault-3.6.2: 
> .gitignore”
> 
> 
> There are the following ways on how the check-release.sh could be adjusted:
> 1. Ignore the file patterns given in CLEAN_SCM always in the given ZIP (for 
> all components)
> 2. Adjust CLEAN_ZIP for affected components (non backwards-compatible)
> 3. Adjust CLEAN_SCM for affected components (non backwards-compatible)
> 
> WDYT?
> Thanks,
> Konrad

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