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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>