Re: Bug#86923: Should be more finicky about filenames in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> Currently, ReadConfigDir seems to only exclude files with certain extensions
> (.disabled, .dpkg-old, etc.). It misses, in particular, vim .swp files (which
> also start with a dot, and otherwise don't look like real config files). This
> causes bad things to happed if apt is run while a vim session is open on one of
> the files in apt.conf.d.
The list is taken from various other programs that use similar
directories. Maybe one simply shouldn't use vim on those files :>
Jason
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