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According to the summary on the Ubuntu bug: "Essentially, we don't want to allow a '.' because of .dpkg-old and .dpkg-dist files."

Is the implication that you can have .dpkg files in cron folders that you wouldn't want to try to execute?

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/debianutils/+bug/3... http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=68561



I posted a link (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2701527) to a Debian bug that explains the rationale (aside from the historical behavior argument) a little better: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=308911


My apologies; I must have missed the comments in between my first looking at it and posting my comment.




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