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

On Fri, May 29, 2026 at 09:54:25AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> I am glad to see the documentation of Files-Excluded moving forward.
> 
> In 2012 (#685506#10) I recommeded to wait and in 2013 (#685506#55) I
> wrote in a reply to Andreas:
> 
> > This field was not my favorite solution to the problem, but experience
> > showed that your solution was implemented, used, and unchallenged.
> 
> 13 years later, no alternative has emerged.  Moreover, Andreas made the
> important point that it is relevant to document in `debian/copyright`
> which files are removed from the upstream sources that we point to in
> the same file.
> 
> In addition, `uscan` has a `--copyright` argument to use a custom
> location for the `debian/copyright` file and developers who do not wish
> to use the machine-readable copyright format can write their own package
> update scripts that take advantage of this option. 

Is it possible to set the copyright file inside the debian/watch file ?
The man page suggests this is not possible.

Cheers,