Bug#565213: apt-listbugs: can't install because it's not installed
Am Donnerstag, den 14.01.2010, 18:40 +0100 schrieb David Kalnischkies:
> Hi Jörgen Tegnér, Francesco Poli & Michael Prokop,
>
> First of all: Thanks for the reports!
>
> 2010/1/14 Michael Prokop <mika@debian.org>:
> > * Francesco Poli <frx@firenze.linux.it> [20100114 16:37]:
> > It's not just about .disabled files, it also affects any manually
> > modified configuration files (resulting in e.g. *.dpkg-dist) - files
> > that shouldn't be considered at all.
> And sorry (again) for the breakage - it seems i "like" to break
> the "simple but not too obviously" things quite regular... :(
>
> But yes, in an act of reducing code copies i had created a
> GetListOfFilesInDir method which is a bit to "nice" it seems -
> if no extension for the partfiles is required (as it is for conf and
> preferences, not for sources and trusted) the code copies previously
> discarded all filenames including a dot - the new method doesn't do
> it...
> my bad -- through this was partly done on propose:
> I am regular confused about which part files need a extension and
> which doesn't need one so a single rule (preferable: all a valid
> extension)
> will hopefully established sometime in the future
> (not now, we need a fair and long transition for this...).
>
> To cut it short, i will sit down and rewrite it a bit so it has the
> old behavior (expect that configfiles will be accepted also with .conf
> -
> any suggestions for preferences ?)
Complete proposal:
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/*.conf
/etc/apt/preferences.d/*.preferences
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.list
In fact, we could implement this now and start deprecating files without
extensions, printing a warning for them; like done for
the /etc/modprobe.d/*.conf migration.
The run-parts(8) algorithm we currently use is really not the best way
to filter files defined by users. In fact, APT2 used the same rules as
APT, but those are a bit to strict and not really easy to understand for
the average user. I thus changed it in
http://git.debian.org/?p=users/jak/apt2.git;a=commit;h=05f525c4aefc
to just ignore files with the suffix ~. Now I believe we should do
something else.
--
Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member
See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.
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