Package: dpkg Version: 1.20.5 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
I noticed that dpkg -V doesn't seem to take into account the path-exclude configuration setting. This config, for example: $ cat /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/excludes # Drop all man pages path-exclude=/usr/share/man/* # Drop all translations path-exclude=/usr/share/locale/*/LC_MESSAGES/*.mo # Drop all documentation ... path-exclude=/usr/share/doc/* # ... except copyright files ... path-include=/usr/share/doc/*/copyright # ... and Debian changelogs path-include=/usr/share/doc/*/changelog.Debian.* A fresh sid container has a clean dpkv -V. I then create the excludes file above, and install some packages: # apt install man slapd .... dpkg -V is now unhappy: root@sid:~# dpkg -V|head ??5?????? /usr/share/doc/slapd/NEWS.Debian.gz ??5?????? /usr/share/doc/slapd/README.DB_CONFIG.gz ??5?????? /usr/share/doc/slapd/README.Debian.gz ??5?????? /usr/share/doc/slapd/TODO.Debian ??5?????? /usr/share/doc/slapd/changelog.gz ??5?????? /usr/share/doc/slapd/examples/DB_CONFIG ??5?????? /usr/share/doc/slapd/examples/slapd.backup ??5?????? /usr/share/doc/slapd/examples/slapd.conf.gz ??5?????? /usr/share/man/man5/slapd-bdb.5.gz ??5?????? /usr/share/man/man5/slapd-config.5.gz Since dpkg knows these files are being excluded, it should not warn about them in the -V operation.
