I submitted a change based on the suggestion upstream: http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-12/msg02142.html
Grml, due to LP posts being mirrored on the ML this is kind of redundant when viewed from the ML. But I want to leave that info for LP-only-readers as well :-/ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1484990 Title: fsfreeze-hook script should also ignored dpkg generated files Status in QEMU: New Status in qemu package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Hello, In the fsfreeze-hook script, the following code check if some of the files should be ignored: # Check whether file $1 is a backup or rpm-generated file and should be ignored is_ignored_file() { case "$1" in *~ | *.bak | *.orig | *.rpmnew | *.rpmorig | *.rpmsave | *.sample) return 0 ;; esac return 1 } The functions should probably also skip dpkg generated files. I've found a list of the different extensions in the systemd source tree: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/src/basic/util.c#L1871 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1484990/+subscriptions
