Quoting Mattia Rizzolo (2020-12-21 10:49:00)
> Control: retitle -1 uscan: missing examples about Files-Included
> Control: severity -1 minor
> 
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 01:34:24AM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > manpage for mk-origtargz talks about support for Files-Included hint,
> > and refers to manpage for uscan for an example.
> > 
> > But manpage for uscan does not mention Files-Included at all.
> > 
> > Setting severity "normal" as I don't know if this is only a matter of
> > updating documentation for uscan, or there is code missing in uscan.
> 
> I can confirm it's only a documentation oversight.  The support lies
> only in mk-origtargz, there is nothing special for uscan to do; the
> documentation is there just for hystorical and practical reasons since
> that's the where most users interact with mk-origtargz (i.e., through
> uscan and not directly). :)

Thanks for clarifying that.

While at it, I suggest to explicitly document that whereas components 
each use a separate Files-Excluded-${COMPONENT}: fields, they apparently 
all share a single Files-Included: field, because (at least for me) that 
is counter-intuitive.

...or please tell if that's a bug that I should rather file separately.


 - Jonas

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