.releaseignore / make release excludes too much files

[dearith]

I think the rules followed by .releaseignore are not correct, thus too much files are ignored.

My use case :

A plugin foo.

The root plugin directory contains a coverage_info.md file

Under the root plugin directory, there is a template directory containing a template_describe_coverage.csv file.

The .releaseignore file (in the root directory) is :

# don't add python3_virtualenv_sources here as we need it for installing
# (it will be removed just after install)
# don't add python2_virtualenv_sources here as we need it for installing
# (it will be removed just after install)
/local
/src
/doc
/docs
__pycache__
*.pyc
.git
.svn
.git*
*.plugin
Makefile
/test
.coveragerc
coverage*
sonar-project.properties

With coverage* in the .releaseignore, i just want to exclude files starting with 'coverage'

When I run make release and install my plugin, the coverage_info.md file is missing (that's correct), but the template_describe_coverage.csv file is also missing in the template directory (that's not correct).

Perhaps it's not a bug, but in this case .releaseignore doesn't work like git and .gitignore.

If I try to do the same with git and .gitignore, only coverage_info.md is ignored by git (regardless of the directory where the file is located).

Notice if I set /coverage* instead of coverage*, in the .releaseignore , that works, only coverage_info.md is excluded.

[thefab]

we use https://github.com/mherrmann/gitignore_parser for parsing this file

so, it should behave like .gitignore!

It's probably a bug of this library. I found:
mherrmann/gitignore_parser#10

there is a conflicting PR about that

as it's a minor issue, I propose to wait a little bit to see in the problem is fixed upstream