Bug#738481: libdebian-copyright-perl: fails when debian/copyright contains Files-Excluded field

[gregor herrmann]

Control: unmerge -1
Control: severity -1 normal
Control: retitle -1 libdebian-copyright-perl: allow arbitrary fields

On Sun, 09 Feb 2014 22:42:52 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:

> Package: libdebian-copyright-perl
> Version: 0.2-1
> Severity: important
> 
> I just tried out the tool license-reconcile today, against the
> ghostscript package.  It failed with this error:
> 
> CopyrightParsing: Invalid field given (Files_Excluded) at /usr/share/perl5/Debian/Copyright.pm line 122.
> 
> Seems to me that it is Debian::Copyright library not supporting that
> field.
> 
> Specifically, the Files-Excluded field is now used by uscan as a way to
> express files to exclude when repackaging an upstream tarball e.g. when
> containing DFSG-nonfree parts.

This will be fixed, and the merged bugs 781369, 816469 closed.

And:
 
> More importantly, however, DEP-5 format 1.0 explicitly allows *any*
> field names, so Debian::Copyright should not fail even if stumbling on
> completely alien fields:
> 
> https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/#file-syntax

this will be tracked as a separate bug, as it's more involved to fix.


Cheers,
gregor

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