[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#845201: Lintian updates for Rust packaging in /usr/share/cargo/registry

[Josh Triplett]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.49
Severity: wishlist

I'm currently working on tools and automation to package Rust packages
(called "crates").  The current plan for doing so involves packaging the
upstream crate source in a subdirectory of /usr/share/cargo/registry/.
This results in a couple of lintian issues, and I'd like to address
those in lintian rather than adding overrides to a large number of
packages.

Can you please exclude files under /usr/share/cargo/registry/ from the
following lintian checks?

- extra-license-file (the upstream crate source includes licenses).
- package-contains-vcs-control-file (some crates include .gitignore or
  .gitattributes files, and I've seen package build systems that read
  .gitignore at build time).

Thanks,
Josh Triplett