Your message dated Fri, 5 Feb 2016 17:52:58 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#813816: ifupdown: does not read files which contain a 
'.' or ':' /etc/network/interfaces.d/ on boot
has caused the Debian Bug report #813816,
regarding ifupdown: does not read files which contain a '.' or ':' 
/etc/network/interfaces.d/ on boot
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Package: ifupdown
Version: 0.7.53.1
Severity: normal

ifupdown will not load this files on boot:
/etc/network/interfaces.d/eth0.101
/etc/network/interfaces.d/eth0:102

while
/etc/network/interfaces.d/eth0101
/etc/network/interfaces.d/eth0102
are loaded just fine.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.3
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: armhf (armv7l)

Kernel: Linux 3.4.108-bananian (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages ifupdown depends on:
ii  adduser      3.113+nmu3
ii  initscripts  2.88dsf-59
ii  iproute2     3.16.0-2
ii  libc6        2.19-18+deb8u2
ii  lsb-base     4.1+Debian13+nmu1

Versions of packages ifupdown recommends:
ii  isc-dhcp-client [dhcp-client]  4.3.1-6+deb8u2

Versions of packages ifupdown suggests:
ii  net-tools  1.60-26+b1
pn  ppp        <none>
pn  rdnssd     <none>

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On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 03:33:55PM +0100, Félix Sipma wrote:
> ifupdown will not load this files on boot:
> /etc/network/interfaces.d/eth0.101
> /etc/network/interfaces.d/eth0:102

This is a documented feature, see man 5 interfaces, the paragraph
starting with "Similiarlly, the source-directory keyword is used..".

This is common among Debian mechanisms that process directories of
conffiles, geared to avoid processing .dpkg-{old,new,dist} or ~ files.

Greetings
Marc

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