Bug#829646: mk-origtargz: Files-Excluded-Ignore

[Dmitry Smirnov]

Package: devscripts
Version: 2.16.6
Severity: wishlist

In Golang team we routinely use (very useful) Files-Excluded
feature to get rid of bundled/vendored libraries.

Usually we can remove all 3rd party libs but occasionally few dependencies
should be preserved in which case we have to maintain explicit long lists
of exclusions like in following example:

http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/docker/docker.io.git/tree/debian/copyright?h=experimental

IMHO it could be useful to be able to drop everything _but_ some folders:

    Files-Excluded: vendor/src/*
    Files-Excluded-Ignore: vendor/src/github.com/docker/notary

hence I'd like to propose new "Files-Excluded-Ignore" field.

-- 
All the best,
 Dmitry Smirnov
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