From 7376837d338fd9399cfa4820b6f9bacbb2634d46 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Kalnischkies <kalnischkies@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 22:15:51 +0100
Subject: a notice is printed for ignored files (Closes: #597615)

---
 doc/apt_preferences.5.xml | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'doc/apt_preferences.5.xml')

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>
 
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