Carl Witty writes:

> I hand-edited a file in /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/ with
> emacs, and I noticed that emacs-install counted the emacs backup file
> as an installed package and tried to run it.  I would prefer it if
> generate-install-list ignored emacs backup files, emacs auto-save
> files, etc.  You could follow the same policy as expressed in this
> excerpt from the run-parts man page:

> > Filenames should consist entirely of upper and lower case letters,
> > digits, underscores, and hyphens.  Subdirectories of directory and
> > files with other names will be silently ignored.

I tend to agree.  In the next release, I'm going to just have
emacsen-common ignore ~ backup files, but we may want to do something
more comprehensive later, so I'll leave this bug open.

Thanks
-- 
Rob Browning
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