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Bug#513248: Attach lexical information to configuration file entries.



Daniel Burrows wrote:
> Package: libapt-pkg-dev
> Version: 0.7.20.1
> Severity: wishlist
> 
>   Sorry, no patch -- I wanted to jot this down before I forgot.  Bug
> me if I haven't sent a patch in a few weeks. ;-)
> 
>   For the purpose of providing the user with diagnostic information,
> it would be nice if apt stored some extra data while parsing
> configuration files.  Specifically, configuration items could get a
> few extra fields: "filename" and "line of file".  This would, e.g.,
> let a front-end tell a user that "^linux-image.*" will never be
> auto-removed because of the setting at line 5 of
> /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01autoremove.
Hello Daniel, thanks for suggestion :)

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Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com
Ukrainian C++ Developer, Debian Maintainer, APT contributor

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