Bug#883557: lintian: detect files present in the upstream tarball that match Files-Excluded patterns

2017-12-04 Thread Chris Lamb
Hi Paul, > It would be great if lintian could detect inconsistencies between > Files-Excluded in debian/copyright and the files in the upstream > tarball. Good idea. I actually rejected liborcus (0.13.1-2) from NEW yesterday with this inconsistency, resulting in: 1 liborcus (0.13.1-3)

Bug#883557: lintian: detect files present in the upstream tarball that match Files-Excluded patterns

2017-12-04 Thread Paul Wise
Package: lintian Severity: wishlist It would be great if lintian could detect inconsistencies between Files-Excluded in debian/copyright and the files in the upstream tarball. The files in the tarball should never match the patterns listed in the Files-Excluded field because uscan should have