Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.26
Severity: normal
[This bug is different than #761125.]
Dear Maintainer,
if the orig tarball contains some files, which are removed by a Debian
patch, they still have to be mentioned in debian/copyright, but then
lintian reports wildcard-matches-nothing-in-dep5-copyright.
I'm not sure if lintian could detect this easily, but if not, I think it
would be good to mention this class of false positives in the tag
description, e.g.:
There can be legitimate reasons to mention files in debian/copyright,
which are not present in the unpacked source, e.g. when they are removed
by Debian patches.
Best regards,
Andreas
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