Bug#620347: "Include conf.d/" should really be "Include conf.d/*.conf"
On Friday 01 April 2011, Christoph Berg wrote:
> we just hit a situation where /etc/apache2/conf.d/security was
> edited by cfengine which left a backup file behind. Unfortunately,
> apache2 read the backup after the file itself, so any config
> changes were futile.
> I guess *.dpkg-old style files will have the same problem.
Debian's apache2 already ignores the most common backup file names,
see README.Debian. Maybe you can tweak cfengine to use different
names.
> Please consider renaming charset/security to
> charset.conf/security.conf and using "Include conf.d/*.conf" in
> future package versions.
That's something worth considering in the next major release.
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