Bug#1131015: mention Files-Excluded/Included-* in copyright-format-1.0.xml

Simon Josefsson <[email protected]> Sat, 21 Mar 2026 14:03:49 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.policy
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lör 2026-03-21 klockan 12:52 +0000 skrev Sean Whitton:
> Simon Josefsson <[email protected]> [21/Mar 10:01am +01] wrote:
> > The rendered text reads like this:
> > 
> >    6.7. Files-Excluded, Files-Excluded-*, Files-Included, Files-
> > Included-*
> > 
> >    Whitespace-separated list: filename patterns (same as the Files
> >    field, including the wildcards) used to signal repacking of the
> >    upstream source source to remove unwanted files. Files-Excluded
> > is a
> >    list of filename patterns matching files (including directories)
> > to
> >    exclude. Files-Excluded-COMPONENT behave the same, but is
> > applied to
> >    a particular orig.tar component only (replacing COMPONENT with
> > the
> >    component name), for multi-orig.tar sources. Files-Included is
> > used
> >    to include some files (or directories) that were excluded by a
> >    Files-Excluded expression. Files-Included-COMPONENT is
> > similarily
> >    used to re-include paths excluded by Files-Excluded-COMPONENT.
> > These
> >    fields are supported by uscan and mk-origtargz.
> > 
> > I believe this is a self-contained specification, and does not need
> > any
> > external references in order to understand, based on already widely
> > implemented properties.  Thus addressing Sean's concern about the
> > syntax
> > of these fields being experimental.
> 
> Thanks, this looks good to me as a piece of Policy.  I'm not
> qualified
> to review its factual accuracy though so it would be great if someone
> else could do that.

Indeed, and there is no hurry, so I think it would be great to hear
feedback from people familiar with implementations of these headers to
have better confidence in the text.

/Simon

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