Hi, On Mon, 20 Aug 2012, Abou Al Montacir wrote: > > I don't understand why abou put in the .*dpkg* line though. ccing > > him to ask. > > Sorry for late replay. The *.dpkg* are crated when upgrading with > conflicts between local modifications and new supplied default script. > These are normally to be removed by user, but when you are purging a > file you are getting rid of all configuration, so I thought it was no > need to keep these files.
dpkg already takes care of removing those files during purge (as well as foo~, foo% and foo.bak). $ grep -A1 -r REMOVECONFFEXTS lib/dpkg/ lib/dpkg/dpkg.h:#define REMOVECONFFEXTS "~", ".bak", "%", \ lib/dpkg/dpkg.h- DPKGTEMPEXT, DPKGNEWEXT, DPKGOLDEXT, DPKGDISTEXT Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Get the Debian Administrator's Handbook: → http://debian-handbook.info/get/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
