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diff --git a/doc/sources.list.5.xml b/doc/sources.list.5.xml index 9eb66d728..b875086ef 100644 --- a/doc/sources.list.5.xml +++ b/doc/sources.list.5.xml @@ -48,9 +48,12 @@ <refsect1><title>sources.list.d</title> <para>The <filename>/etc/apt/sources.list.d</filename> directory provides - a way to add sources.list entries in separate files whose names end with - <literal>.list</literal>. The format is the same as for the regular - <filename>sources.list</filename> file. </para> + a way to add sources.list entries in separate files. + The format is the same as for the regular <filename>sources.list</filename> file. + 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> </refsect1> <refsect1><title>The deb and deb-src types</title> |