[Cupt-devel] Bug#697248: cupt: Does not ignore the same files as APT in /etc/apt.conf.d/

[Axel Beckert]

Package: cupt
Version: 2.5.9
Severity: minor

Dear Maintainer,

when trying to fix the issue described at
https://wiki.debian.org/Cupt#line-53 with an editor which makes backup
files with a tilde ("~") suffix, cupt tries to parse that backup file:

E: syntax error: line 4, character 1: expected: semicolon (';')
E: unable to parse the config file '//etc/apt/apt.conf.d/00CDMountPoint~'
W: skipped the configuration file '//etc/apt/apt.conf.d/00CDMountPoint~'

apt.conf(5) says under "DIRECTORIES":


       The Ignore-Files-Silently list can be used to specify which files
       APT should silently ignore while parsing the files in the
       fragment directories. Per default a file which end with
       .disabled, ~, .bak or .dpkg-[a-z]+ is silently ignored. As seen
       in the last default value these patterns can use regular
       expression syntax.

I'd expect that cupt uses the same rules here.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers testing-updates
  APT policy: (902, 'testing-updates'), (901, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable'), (110, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages cupt depends on:
ii  libboost-program-options1.49.0  1.49.0-3.1
ii  libc6                           2.13-37
ii  libcupt2-0                      2.5.9
ii  libgcc1                         1:4.7.2-4
ii  libstdc++6                      4.7.2-4

cupt recommends no packages.

Versions of packages cupt suggests:
ii  libreadline6    6.2-8
ii  sensible-utils  0.0.7

-- no debconf information