On Mon, Jul 02, 2018 at 04:40:43PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com> writes: > > > Context: I have run into a few packages that used the +dfsg convention > > without documenting what they removed from the tarball and I was not > > able to locally update them. :( > > This is one of the cases that now has a better solution and more standard > tools than the get-orig-source target, specifically Files-Excluded in > debian/copyright. See the documentation of Files-Excluded in uscan(1).
Files-Excluded requires to use the new copyright format, and is far less powerful than a shell script. This is not a true replacement. How many packages are using Files-Excluded ? Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.
