Bug#94286: apt: should ignore .dpkg-new and the like in apt.conf.d
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 08:46:51AM -0500, Adam Heath wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > Here is a patch. I still say that apt should ignore everything by default,
> > and only accept filenames matching a certain pattern.
>
> You are suggesting that apt try to use a config fragment from a package that
> is not fully installed at configured?
>
> Jason, I suggest you close this bug, without accepting this patch.
No, I am not, and if you read my patch, you would see that it merely adds
".dpkg-new" to the list of extensions to ignore, thus correctly fixing this
bug.
My comment, which was unrelated to the patch, was that a better approach might
be to accept filenames matching a pattern, rather than excluding filenames with
certain extensions. This avoids the problem of trying to exclude the temporary
filenames of every editor in existence (including vim, which will create unique
names for successive .swp files for the same file).
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- mdz
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