Bug#685506: debian-policy: Please add field Files-Excluded to machine readable copyright files definition
On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 05:54:59PM +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 03:58:55PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
> > > Gentle ping to Policy editors for that seconding :-) It would be really
> > > nice to move this info from tribal knowledge to documentation.
> >
> > There's no patch to be seconded ...?
I need to admit that I'm not up for such a patch despite the fact
that I was involved into Files-Excluded invention. I'm lagging
way too much behind my usual Debian work (and this is for a reason
which I announced some time ago in debian-private.
> I'm interested in seconding such patch.
>
> For whoever is going to write it, remember to talk about:
> * Files-Excluded-$component
> * Files-Included
> which are even less-known bits of the "specification" (Files-Included is
> also *very* new, in Debian times).
Ahhh, nice to learn about this. I never heard about it before.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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