Bug#512476: Ignore backups in /usr/share/gconf/defaults.

[Trent W. Buck]

Package: gconf2
Severity: wishlist

I have (IIRC) been screwed in the past using update-gconf-defaults
because I had two files: 20-foo and 20-foo~.  The latter was created
by Emacs when I edited 20-foo, and contains an old version.  Because
update-gconf-defaults uses both as input, the net effect is that the
older version overwrites the newer version, confusing me.

run-parts is another Debian tool that uses a number of files in a
directory.  It has very specific requirements about what the file
names should be, to avoid running backup files.  It would be nice if
update-gconf-defaults adopted a similar approach.

    If the --lsbsysinit option is given, then the names must not end
    in .dpkg-old or .dpkg-dist or .dpkg-new or .dpkg-tmp, and must
    belong to one or more of the following namespaces: the
    LANANA-assigned namespace (^[a-z0-9]+$); the LSB hierarchical and
    reserved namespaces (^_?([a-z0-9_.]+-)+[a-z0-9]+$); and the Debian
    cron script namespace (^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*$).

    -- run-parts(8)


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gconf2 depends on:
pn  gconf2-common              <none>        (no description available)
ii  libc6                      2.7-18        GNU C Library: Shared libraries
pn  libgconf2-4                <none>        (no description available)
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.16.6-1      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libxml2                    2.6.32.dfsg-5 GNOME XML library
ii  psmisc                     22.6-1        Utilities that use the proc filesy
ii  python                     2.5.2-3       An interactive high-level object-o

Versions of packages gconf2 recommends:
ii  libgtk2.0-0                   2.12.11-4  The GTK+ graphical user interface 

gconf2 suggests no packages.