Why does Bazaar download so much data for a small change?

[Ben Finney]

Aaron Bentley <aaron at aaronbentley.com> writes:

> Wouter van Heyst wrote:
> > Make sure the file ends on .list, or apt will ignore it.
> 
> Which is contrary to other .d directories, where dots prevent the
> item from being processed :-(

Not by my reading of Debian's ‘run-parts(8)’, which names several
regexes for names that will be used; including one that allows an
arbitrary number of ‘.’ characters.

What reference are you using for the specification of usage of such
directories?

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Ben Finney