On Jan 20, 2016 2:33 PM, "Adam D. Barratt" <a...@adam-barratt.org.uk> wrote: > > On Wed, 2016-01-20 at 19:18 +0000, Wookey wrote: > > The uscan Files-Excluded field than can be put into debian/copyright > > is a very nice feature, however it is currently unecessarily difficult > > to use because it's format is not actually documented anywhere I could > > find. > > > > uscan refers to the existence of the Files-Excluded field in > > debian/copyright in the man page, but does not give any details of its > > format. > [...] > > However > > https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ > > does not contain the text 'Files-Excluded' anywhere in it. > > #685506 exists to rectify that, although it hasn't seen any activity for > a while.
The short version being, Files-Excluded has the same syntax as Files. Cheers, James
