Hi, On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 10:36:28PM +0000, Wookey wrote: > +++ James McCoy [2016-01-20 14:49 -0500]: > > On Jan 20, 2016 2:33 PM, "Adam D. Barratt" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > #685506 exists to rectify that, although it hasn't seen any activity for > > > a while. > > Thank you useful pointer (to long discussion). I got a bit lost in > there. What is needed to finally have this field (the version that has > been implemented) documented in the copyright file format doc? > > I don't actually know where > http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ > comes from. Is it part of policy and thus a patch aginst debian-policy > is needed? > > > The short version being, Files-Excluded has the same syntax as Files. > > Yes, but has to be in the header paragraph, not the Files paragraph, > and there can only be one of it (two in the header is a syntax error, > one in header and more in other paras: the others get ignored). > > But yes these 4 lines is about all that is needed.
For multi-tarball packages, the new Files-Excluded-<component> stanza also works the same way. FYI: These are somewhat mentioned in the new manpage of uscan and mk-origtargz. Mentioning requirement to be in the header paragraph, not in the Files paragraph, may be good idea. Text suggestions welcomed. Regards, Osamu _______________________________________________ devscripts-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devscripts-devel
