Hi, Key documents of interest to think about raised issue are: https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#copyright-debian-copyright https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#upstream-source-location-debian-watch https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
On Sun, 2021-11-28 at 21:39 +0100, Holger Wansing wrote: > Hi, > > Am 28. November 2021 20:43:01 MEZ schrieb Geert Stappers > <stapp...@stappers.nl>: > > Package: www.debian.org > > > > Hello www.debian.org care takers, > > > > > > While searching for information about > > field 'Files-Excluded: ' in debian/copyright > > did I came across > > https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ > > That document is not yet aware of the field. > > I see. > > Since https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=685506#197 > > is there a patch for it. > > Yes, policy is the place, if we ever make this as policy required method. FYI: I do mention on this field in my tutorial: https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debmake-doc/ch05.en.html#copyright > > Please advice how to add information > > to https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0 > > The website just shows the content the debian-policy package > (from unstable). > > So, the new content simply needs to be added the the package. > The patch could be a good step forward for that... TOH, dpkg, debhelper, uscan, and tools in devscripts ... are the default tool sets to be used for Debian packaging. uscan calls mk-origtargz to take care creating orig.tar.xz file these days. I can see mention of Files-Excluded in: https://manpages.debian.org/testing/devscripts/uscan.1.en.html To me, this is a popular data field for popular tool but may not be as important to be defined in details as policy required field. Speaking of uscan, I don't think we had much policy discussion on some packaging reference data, debian/watch, when I updated debian/watch file format details by updating uscan code. Debian policy only defines existence of file but not much on how it is organized. https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#upstream-source-location-debian-watch Files-Excluded is just like watch file format details and it looks more of an optional feature to me. If we ever add something to policy on Files-Excluded, just mentioning as much as we did for watch file is appropriate. Don't go too much in details. Osamu
