Bug#684437: ***SPAM***Re: Bug#684437: unblock: fpc/2.6.0-6
Hi,
On Mon, 20 Aug 2012, Abou Al Montacir wrote:
> > I don't understand why abou put in the .*dpkg* line though. ccing
> > him to ask.
>
> Sorry for late replay. The *.dpkg* are crated when upgrading with
> conflicts between local modifications and new supplied default script.
> These are normally to be removed by user, but when you are purging a
> file you are getting rid of all configuration, so I thought it was no
> need to keep these files.
dpkg already takes care of removing those files during purge (as well as foo~,
foo% and foo.bak).
$ grep -A1 -r REMOVECONFFEXTS lib/dpkg/
lib/dpkg/dpkg.h:#define REMOVECONFFEXTS "~", ".bak", "%", \
lib/dpkg/dpkg.h- DPKGTEMPEXT, DPKGNEWEXT, DPKGOLDEXT, DPKGDISTEXT
Cheers,
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