On Wed, 1 Jan 2020 22:56:13 -0600
"Karl O. Pinc" <k...@karlpinc.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Jan 2020 01:45:16 +0000
> Justin B Rye <justin.byam....@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > (Personally I have a cronjob that nags me if it sees any *.dpkg-new,
> > *.dpkg-old, *.dpkg-save, *.pam-old or *ucf-old files lying about.)
>
> I noticed with the Buster upgrade that there are some packages
> that want to do a "three way merge", which, when it fails,
> uses some other long suffix for the files it leaves laying
> around. But I forget the name.
Finally found them: *.ucf-dist *.merge-error *.ucf-old
> Using locate I also notice a few *.dpkg-bak files.
That makes the complete list: *.dpkg-new *.dpkg-old *.dpkg-save,
*.dpkg-bak, *.pam-old, *.ucf-old, *.ucf-dist, *.merge-error
Regards,
Karl <k...@karlpinc.com>
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