Bug#685506: debian-policy: Please add field Files-Excluded to machine readable copyright files definition

[Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org>]

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 09:59:28PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> user debian-policy@packages.debian.org
> usertags 685506 normative discussion
> retitle 685506 copyright-format: new Files-Excluded field
> thanks

Thanks for enhancing the metadata.
 
> At this moment, I would recommend to look how the situation evolves in the next
> months, in particular:
> 
>  - How the idea is adopted,

I personally will migrate any of my get-orig-source scripts to use
exclusion enabled removal uscan from the moment where this might become
possible.

>  - if un-anticipated shortcomings are found, and
>  - if other tools (git-import-orig for instance) implement the parsing if this
>    new field.

While the idea for this new field was born from the intended usage in
uscan I would like to stress the fact that I see a perfectly valid
reason to use this totally independently as a documentation means.  So
this bug is somehow unrelated to any usage in tools (even if admittedly
it perfectly would help adopting it).  Please see the suggestion as any
other field in debian/copyright which is not necessarily used by any
tool.
 
Kind regards

      Andreas. 

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