Bug#800106: cruft-ng: should follow symlinks for excluded files

2015-09-26 Thread Achim Schaefer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks, for sure this is one way, and I definitivly need to set this up. Not done until now, to be able to report "bugs" I thought using symlinks to replace hardcoded paths might be more common. This way other people might not think about files som

Bug#800106: cruft-ng: should follow symlinks for excluded files

2015-09-26 Thread Alexandre Detiste
Hi, The important bit here is "on my system"; the cruft tool provides a way to support local hacks: custom filters in /etc/cruft/filters. Here's an example: $ cat /etc/cruft/filters/DETISTE /etc/X11/Xreset.d/guest /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99local /etc/apt/sources.list.d/local.list /etc/cron.daily/ra

Bug#800106: cruft-ng: should follow symlinks for excluded files

2015-09-26 Thread Achim Schaefer
Package: cruft-ng Version: 0.4+b1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, in the filter-unex you can find these lines for apt: /var/cache/apt/archives /var/cache/apt/archives/* Now on my system this is a symlink: ls -ld /var/cache/apt lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Aug 24 06:59 /var/cache/apt -> /mnt/apt/c