Hi,
Why are files excluded if they are included via another *.orig.tar.gz file?
They are excluded from the first .orig archive *because* they are provided from the second. The database repository provides the most recently generated files, these aren't merged back into the main repo.
In principle these should be removed from the main repo, so I'm doing the next best thing. I'm also excluding the subprojects that are needed only for running the fuzzer.
And the Lintian warnings are overridden
Yes, that is a false positive. Lintian should check .orig.tar.* against Files-Excluded, and .orig-database.tar.* against Files-Excluded-database, but it appears to check the unpacked tree against Files-Excluded, which is wrong.
Simon

