Package: devscripts Version: 2.22.2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
While using the Files-Included functionality for the first time, I noticed that linitian was giving me errors about empty directories in my package. Upon investigation, I realized that the Files-Included process was only removing the *files* in Files-Excluded directories that had a nested Files-Included stanza, but leaving the empty sub-directories in place. For example, assume a d/copyright with: Files-Excluded: removesome Files-Included: removesome/keepme and the following directory structure: removesome/ removesome/file1 removesome/subdir/ removesome/subdir/file2 removesome/keepme/ removesome/keepme/file3 Currently, the following will be kept: removesome/ removesome/subdir/ removesome/keepme/ removesome/keepme/file3 However, I believe that the expected behavior of the tool should result in only the following kept: removesome/ removesome/keepme/ removesome/keepme/file3 Looking into the relevant source code, I noticed that testGoVendorIncludeIgnore was *expecting* the empty directory to be left behind. I believe this is an error in the test. I suggested a fix [1] but, unfortunately, I don't know Perl well enough to submit a fix to the root issue. That being said, I'm happy to help in any other way. Thanks in advance for looking into this issue! -Olek [1] https://salsa.debian.org/debian/devscripts/-/merge_requests/285
