Comment 6 for bug 20611

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 16:56:27 +0100
From: <email address hidden> (Marco d'Itri)
To: Thomas Hood <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#299205: Backup files in blacklist.d not ignored

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tag 299205 wontfix
thanks

On Mar 12, Thomas Hood <email address hidden> wrote:

> This processes _all_ the files in $HOTPLUG_DIR/blacklist.d/ without
> ignoring those that are backup files, e.g., foo.dpkg-old. The
> hotplug package avoids this sort of problem in other cases by requiring
> a special file suffix. It may be too late to require such a suffix for
> names of files in blacklist.d. Perhaps "run-parts --list" can be used
> to obtain the list of active files in the directory instead of shell
> glob.
I refuse to spawn yet another program in this path, which is already too
slow. I have no plan to fix this.

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ciao,
Marco

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