On 23/05/26 9:27 pm, Simon Richter wrote:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 2.122.0
Is this reproducible with the latest version?
> Severity: normal
> X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a package with two tarballs,
>
> ….orig.tar.xz
> …-database.orig.tar.gz
>
> The git repository that the .orig.tar.xz is built from also contains a
> "database" directory, which should be excluded, so debian/copyright has
> "Files-Excluded: database/*", and uscan correctly excludes these files from
> the tarball.
>
> The second tarball then provides a replacement "database" directory.
>
> Lintian complains about each file in this directory, claiming that it is
> excluded but present in the tarball, without checking which tarball
> provides that file.
Will you please provide the exact package and the version and the false
positives please?
It's not entirely clear to me from the bug report, and having an exact
reproducer would help
to debug this much more quickly.
Thanks
Nilesh
