Package: apt Version: 3.3.3 Severity: minor X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? A recent u-u upgrade left file /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades.ucf-dist and I got curious whether APT would properly ignore that. * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? Checked the man page apt.conf(5), which says: The Ignore-Files-Silently list can be used to specify which files APT should silently ignore while parsing the files in the fragment directo‐ ries. Per default a file which ends with .disabled, ~, .bak or .dpkg-[a-z]+ is silently ignored. As seen in the last default value these patterns can use regular expression syntax. So according to the man page, the *.ucf-dist file would *not* be ignored. However, "apt-config dump" shows that the default value of that variable comprises Dir::Ignore-Files-Silently:: "\.ucf-[a-z]+$"; so all is well. Probably the man page should be updated, and if only to mention that other files are ignored as well, and that "apt-config dump" could be used to get the complete truth. Thanks! -- Package-specific info: -- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) -- -- (no /etc/apt/preferences.d/CVS present) -- -- (/etc/apt/preferences.d/local-sources present, but not submitted) -- -- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) -- -- (no /etc/apt/sources.list.d/CVS present) -- -- (/etc/apt/sources.list.d/local-sources.list present, but not submitted) -- -- System Information: Debian Release: forky/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 7.1.13+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages apt depends on: ii adduser 3.159 ii base-passwd 3.6.8 ii debian-archive-keyring 2025.1 ii libapt-pkg7.0 3.3.3 ii libc6 2.43-5 ii libgcc-s1 16.2.0-1 ii libseccomp2 2.6.1-1+b1 ii libssl3t64 3.6.4-1 ii libstdc++6 16.2.0-1 ii libsystemd0 261.2-1 ii sqv 1.5.0-1 Versions of packages apt recommends: ii ca-certificates 20260816 Versions of packages apt suggests: pn apt-doc <none> ii aptitude 0.8.13-8.1 ii dpkg-dev 1.23.7 ii gnupg 2.4.9-7 ii powermgmt-base 1.39 -- Configuration Files: /etc/logrotate.d/apt changed [not included] -- no debconf information
