Bug#426913: More filename woes
tag 426913 +patch
thanks
Additionally, filenames need to end in ".list".
All of this is undocumented and thus Just Plain Wrong.
diff -rub apt-0.6.46.4/doc/sources.list.5.xml apt-0.6.46.4.new/doc/sources.list.5.xml
--- apt-0.6.46.4/doc/sources.list.5.xml 2006-12-04 15:37:35.000000000 +0100
+++ apt-0.6.46.4.new/doc/sources.list.5.xml 2008-05-29 14:39:44.298786000 +0200
@@ -50,8 +50,10 @@
<para>The <filename>/etc/apt/sources.list.d</filename> directory provides
a way to add sources.list entries in seperate files that end with
<literal>.list</literal>. The format is the same as for the regular
- <filename>sources.list</filename> file. </para>
- </refsect1>
+ <filename>sources.list</filename> file. File names need to end with
+ <filename>.list</filename> and may only contain letters (a-z and A-Z),
+ digits (0-9), underscore (), hyphen (-) and period (.) characters.
+ Otherwise they'll be silently ignored.</para> </refsect1>
<refsect1><title>The deb and deb-src types</title>
<para>The <literal>deb</literal> type describes a typical two-level Debian
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