On 2026-03-21 10:17, Simon Josefsson wrote: > The document has this to say about Files: > > Patterns match pathnames that start at the root of the source > tree. Thus, “Makefile.in” matches only the file at the root of the > tree, but “*/Makefile.in” matches at any depth. > > Thus if we want this to be consistent, I think the tools should behave > like that for Files-Excluded/Included* too. > > Finally, I'm sure there are bugs in all sorts of tools and existing > debian/* files, but bugs should not block a specification for things. I believe the same. However, even though I consider this to be a bug, I might be misunderstanding something, and this might be working as intended.
In the latter case, the Policy would either have to acknowledge this design decision, or "force" a change of mk-origtargz -- hence why I wanted to point out #1106232. Best, Christian
