As this bug report points out it can be a little confusing to tell what
package /tmp/config.XXXXX comes from when it outputs stuff to stderr.
The easiest fix is to make apt-extracttemplates name the file like
/tmp/package.config.XXXXXX (and /tmp/package.templates.XXXXX for
consistency). Something like this?

--- cmdline/apt-extracttemplates.cc.old Thu Feb  7 13:02:59 2002
+++ cmdline/apt-extracttemplates.cc     Thu Feb  7 13:02:19 2002
@@ -242,11 +242,11 @@
 // WriteFile - write the contents of the passed string to a file       /*{{{*/
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 /* */
-string WriteFile(const char *prefix, const char *data)
+string WriteFile(const char *package, const char *prefix, const char *data)
 {
        char fn[512];
        static int i;
-       snprintf(fn, sizeof(fn), "%s/%s.%u%d", 
_config->Find("APT::ExtractTemplates::TempDir", TMPDIR).c_str(), prefix, 
getpid(), i++);
+       snprintf(fn, sizeof(fn), "%s/%s.%s.%u%d", 
_config->Find("APT::ExtractTemplates::TempDir", TMPDIR).c_str(), package, 
prefix, getpid(), i++);
        FileFd f;
        if (data == NULL)
                data = "";
@@ -267,8 +267,8 @@
 /* */
 void WriteConfig(const DebFile &file)
 {
-       string templatefile = WriteFile("template", file.Template);
-       string configscript = WriteFile("config", file.Config);
+       string templatefile = WriteFile(file.Package, "template", 
file.Template);
+       string configscript = WriteFile(file.Package, "config", file.Config);
 
        if (templatefile.empty() == true || configscript.empty() == true)
                return;
--- doc/apt-extracttemplates.1.sgml.old Thu Feb  7 13:04:28 2002
+++ doc/apt-extracttemplates.1.sgml     Thu Feb  7 13:04:13 2002
@@ -42,8 +42,8 @@
    <para>
    template-file and config-script are written to the temporary directory
    specified by the -t or --tempdir 
(<literal/APT::ExtractTemplates::TempDir/>) 
-   directory, with filenames of the form <filename>template.XXXX</> and 
-   <filename>config.XXXX</>
+   directory, with filenames of the form <filename>package.template.XXXX</> 
and 
+   <filename>package.config.XXXX</>
  </RefSect1>
  
  <RefSect1><Title>Options</>

-- 
see shy jo

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