On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, André Malo wrote: > * Thom May wrote: > > > This is in response to a debian bug request; basically it just tightens up > > the list of allowed characters, so we don't include .dotfiles and backups > > etc. > > Thoughts? > > hmm. I don't like it. The most can easily be done with normal wildcard > matching. If your patch is applied and I have filenames (already), that > don't match the hardcoded (!) rules, I'm lost.
Right. People should be using Include conf/*.conf The docs now explicitly discourage the use of directory includes to avoid exactly this problem. Joshua.
