Bug#816469: license-reconcile: CopyrightParsing: Invalid field given (Files_Excluded)

[gregor herrmann]

Control: reassign -1 libdebian-copyright-perl
Control: forcemerge 781369 -1
Control: affects 781369 + check-all-the-things

On Wed, 02 Mar 2016 10:03:01 +0800, Paul Wise wrote:

> Package: license-reconcile
> Version: 0.9
> Severity: normal
> User: check-all-the-things at packages.debian.org
> Usertags: noise
> Control: affects -1 + check-all-the-things
> 
> Some packages use the Files-Excluded in debian/copyright feature of
> uscan to remove files from the upstream tarball before inclusion in
> Debian. license-reconcile chokes on these with this message:
> 
> CopyrightParsing: Invalid field given (Files_Excluded) at /usr/share/perl5/Debian/Copyright.pm line 123.

This is #781369 (and #738481) in libdebian-copyright-perl.

(Or maybe they should be unmerged again into "Include Files-Excluded
as known header field" (urgent) and "Allow arbitrary fields as per
Copyright-Format 1.0" (needs more thinking). But the bug is there in
any case.)
 
Cheers,
gregor

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