Feat: Exclude Files

[surdaft]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I have a large monolithic repo with a lot of files that need adding to the .deb archive, I currently use fpm's exclude-file functionality to ignore a bunch of stuff I don't need, such as .git and the cache directory from build.

Adding each folder, file, etc. to the contents list is far too many items to add.

Describe the solution you'd like

It would be very helpful to be able to move over to nfpm with the existing exclude file that is already present.

Describe alternatives you've considered

I could potentially rsync the contents to another directory for packaging, with the exclude file being used there, however this would reduce the complexity of the build pipeline a lot if I could avoid that rsync.

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Additional context

Currently, without the exclude, I encounter a huge memory usage from nfpm trying to package my project. I have done a test and this seems to be linked to the additional folders, as mentioned .git, being included as well.