[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#1017690: debcargo: enable deletion of files using .debcargo.hint

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

Package: debcargo
Version: 2.5.0-3+b4

currently, if debian/foo.debcargo.hint exists, debcargo will leave
debian/foo alone, as long as what it wanted to put in debian/foo matches
debian/foo.debcargo.hint exactly.

However, in some circumstances a developer might want to entirely omit a
file normally created by debcargo.

The natural way to do this would be ship debian/foo.debcargo.hint and
then *not ship* debian/foo at all.  however, debcargo apparently sees
the lack of debian/foo as an invitation to put its usual output in that
file, even if debian/foo.debcargo.hint already exists.

Instead, debcargo should not touch debian/foo at all if
debian/foo.debcargo.hint exists.  This allows a developer to declare
that a file normally-generated by debcargo is entirely unwanted for this
package/crate.

           --dkg
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