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  1. Bug #611925
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 611925

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Hernando Torque (htorque) wrote :

Seems to be intentional:

> apt (0.7.26~exp8) experimental; urgency=low
>
> [ David Kalnischkies ]
> ...
> * apt-pkg/contrib/fileutl.cc:
> - show notice about ignored file instead of being always silent
> - add a Dir::Ignore-Files-Silently list option to control the notice

So using

sudo apt-get -o dir::ignore-files-silently::="\.save$" update

won't complain. Those .save files seem to come from software-properties-gtk btw.