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

[Eugene V. Lyubimkin]

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Hi, thanks for the report.

2013-01-03 01:44, Axel Beckert:
> [...]
> 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.

Absolutely. Will be implemented, probably in 2.6.0 already.

P.S. The actual ignore list [1] is apparently longer, APT people might
want to update their man page is well.

[1] 'apt-config dump | grep Ignore'

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