a notice is printed for ignored files (Closes: #597615)

4 files changed, 13 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index a44a603e3..9e14c562c 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ apt (0.8.11) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
     - remove duplicated mentioning of --install-recommends
   * doc/sources.list.5.xml:
     - remove obsolete references to non-us (Closes: #594495)
+    - a notice is printed for ignored files (Closes: #597615)
   * debian/rules:
     - use -- instead of deprecated -u for dh_gencontrol
     - remove shlibs.local creation and usage
@@ -103,7 +104,7 @@ apt (0.8.11) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
       will actually test uncompressed indexes regardless of the internal
       default value of Acquire::GzipIndexes.
 
- -- David Kalnischkies <kalnischkies@gmail.com>  Mon, 07 Feb 2011 21:42:06 +0100
+ -- David Kalnischkies <kalnischkies@gmail.com>  Mon, 07 Feb 2011 22:14:09 +0100
 
 apt (0.8.10.3) unstable; urgency=low
 
diff --git a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml
index a423dac24..477507598 100644
--- a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml
+++ b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml
@@ -52,8 +52,10 @@
       <listitem><para>all files in <literal>Dir::Etc::Parts</literal> in
 	 alphanumeric ascending order which have no or "<literal>conf</literal>"
 	 as filename extension and which only contain alphanumeric,
-	 hyphen (-), underscore (_) and period (.) characters -
-	 otherwise they will be silently ignored.</para></listitem>
+	 hyphen (-), underscore (_) and period (.) characters.
+	 Otherwise APT will print a notice that it has ignored a file if the file
+	 doesn't match a pattern in the <literal>Dir::Ignore-Files-Silently</literal>
+	 configuration list - in this case it will be silently ignored.</para></listitem>
       <listitem><para>the main configuration file specified by
 	 <literal>Dir::Etc::main</literal></para></listitem>
       <listitem><para>the command line options are applied to override the
diff --git a/doc/apt_preferences.5.xml b/doc/apt_preferences.5.xml
index 54c01100c..0d22d0413 100644
--- a/doc/apt_preferences.5.xml
+++ b/doc/apt_preferences.5.xml
@@ -71,8 +71,10 @@ You have been warned.</para>
 directory are parsed in alphanumeric ascending order and need to obey the
 following naming convention: The files have no or "<literal>pref</literal>"
 as filename extension and which only contain alphanumeric,  hyphen (-),
-underscore (_) and period (.) characters - otherwise they will be silently
-ignored.</para>
+underscore (_) and period (.) characters.
+Otherwise APT will print a notice that it has ignored a file if the file
+doesn't match a pattern in the <literal>Dir::Ignore-Files-Silently</literal>
+configuration list - in this case it will be silently ignored.</para>
 
 <refsect2><title>APT's Default Priority Assignments</title>
 
diff --git a/doc/sources.list.5.xml b/doc/sources.list.5.xml
index 212ed6d98..837f07683 100644
--- a/doc/sources.list.5.xml
+++ b/doc/sources.list.5.xml
@@ -57,7 +57,9 @@
    File names need to end with
    <filename>.list</filename> and may only contain letters (a-z and A-Z),
    digits (0-9), underscore (_), hyphen (-) and period (.) characters.
-   Otherwise they will be silently ignored.</para>
+   Otherwise APT will print a notice that it has ignored a file if the file
+   doesn't match a pattern in the <literal>Dir::Ignore-Files-Silently</literal>
+   configuration list - in this case it will be silently ignored.</para>
  </refsect1>
 
  <refsect1><title>The deb and deb-src types</title>