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

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