[Bug 482986] [NEW] Tracks some unnecessary/autogenerated files

[gpk]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: etckeeper

Etckeeper tracks files like these:
> Committing to: /etc/                                                           
> modified cups/printers.conf
> modified cups/printers.conf.O                                                  
> modified cups/subscriptions.conf
> modified cups/subscriptions.conf.O
> Committed revision 148.              

Things like cups/printers.conf.O are simply auto-generated copies of
old versions of cups/printers.conf .   That information is already in
etckeeper.   All you'd have to do is to go to the previous version
of cups/printers.conf .

For instance, if I compare them:
$ sudo diff /etc/cups/printers.conf /etc/cups/printers.conf.O 
2c2
< # Written by cupsd on 2009-11-15 07:57
---
> # Written by cupsd on 2009-11-12 07:57
$ 
You can see that there's really not a lot of point in keeping both...

I suggest that (by default) etckeeper should ignore filenames in the
forms
*.conf.O
*.conf.[0123456789]
*.conf.bak
*.conf.20090418201001   (as a regular expression, something like [.]conf[.][0-9]{8,} would do)
* DO NOT ignore things like /etc/sgml/docbook-xml/4.1.2
*.[0123456789].gz

It's an easy and safe way to get rid of some cruft and bloat.

** Affects: etckeeper (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Tracks some unnecessary/autogenerated files
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