Package: libdebian-copyright-perl
Version: 0.2-1
Severity: important

I just tried out the tool license-reconcile today, against the
ghostscript package.  It failed with this error:

CopyrightParsing: Invalid field given (Files_Excluded) at 
/usr/share/perl5/Debian/Copyright.pm line 122.

Seems to me that it is Debian::Copyright library not supporting that
field.

Specifically, the Files-Excluded field is now used by uscan as a way to
express files to exclude when repackaging an upstream tarball e.g. when
containing DFSG-nonfree parts.

More importantly, however, DEP-5 format 1.0 explicitly allows *any*
field names, so Debian::Copyright should not fail even if stumbling on
completely alien fields:

https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/#file-syntax

 - Jonas


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