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>> This is likely more globaly usefull than implemeting manual >> filtering of missing files in cruft/cruft-ng > > I found more use cases in the meantime... > > - /etc/python2.7/sitecustomize.py doesn't get created on > upgrade/reinstall apt-get -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confmiss" install --reinstall libpython2.7-minimal > - sometimes I explicitly don't want a config file to be present > (signalled by renaming it to FOO.dpkg-dist). For example init scripts > when I only want the binary, not the service. Or the many exim config > snippets you don't want to activate. For this purpose, /etc/cruft/filters or more precisely /etc/cruft/filters-miss should work with old cruft; I'll have a look on how to implement those in cruft-ng. Alexandre
