Re: Not just a dpkg/run-parts problem

[Clint Adams <schizo@debian.org>]

> 1. Specify a namespace (probably beginning or ending pattern) that
> will *alway* be skipped, now and forever more, and migrate the Debian
> tools dpkg, Xsession, cron, modutils, etc. Submit the pattern to
> the LSB folks, so that we can get it standardized (which means it
> should probably *not* be something that contains 'deb' or 'debian' or
> suchlike).

This sounds good to me.

> 2. List specific extensions that override (augment?) the above, so that
> existing systems don't provide to many suprises. Probably includes the
> obvious: .dpkg-*, .orig, .bak, .yyyymmdd, .yy-mm-dd.

If the LSB hierarchical regex is something like
"_?([a-z0-9_.]+-)+[a-z0-9]+" and the LANANA/traditional regex
is something like "[a-z0-9-]+", then .orig, .bak,
.yyyymmdd, #*#, and *~ will already be excluded.  It's only the
hyphenated extensions which complicate things.