Package: proftpd-basic Followup-For: Bug #814772 I would close this bug mainly as an old configuration issue.
At the time I added Include /etc/proftpd/conf.d as a way to add a whole set of configuration files. The ~ for backup file is a convention (e.g. Emacs), so basically any plain file will be included, so the admin should ensure to include only valid and not redundant configuration files. That said, _now_ I would use something like: Include /etc/proftpd/conf.d/*.conf which would obsolete this bug. This is _now_ a valid and supported include clause (not at the time of my first change in the configuration file). Changing that could add now more headaches for the poor maintainer, with people complaining about supposed broken configurations and so on. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages proftpd-basic depends on: ii adduser 3.115 ii debconf 1.5.59 ii debianutils 4.8.1 ii libacl1 2.2.52-3 ii libc6 2.24-8 ii libcap2 1:2.25-1 ii libmemcached11 1.0.18-4.1 ii libmemcachedutil2 1.0.18-4.1 ii libncurses5 6.0+20161126-1 ii libpam-runtime 1.1.8-3.3 ii libpam0g 1.1.8-3.3 ii libpcre3 2:8.39-2 ii libssl1.0.2 1.0.2j-4 ii libtinfo5 6.0+20161126-1 ii libwrap0 7.6.q-25 ii lsb-base 9.20161125 ii netbase 5.3 ii sed 4.2.2-8 ii ucf 3.0036 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-4 proftpd-basic recommends no packages. Versions of packages proftpd-basic suggests: ii openbsd-inetd [inet-superserver] 0.20140418-2 ii openssl 1.1.0c-2 ii proftpd-doc 1.3.5b-1 pn proftpd-mod-geoip <none> pn proftpd-mod-ldap <none> pn proftpd-mod-mysql <none> pn proftpd-mod-odbc <none> pn proftpd-mod-pgsql <none> pn proftpd-mod-sqlite <none> -- debconf information excluded