On Thu, 10 Oct 2019 04:35:22 +0100 Michael Everitt wrote: > Is there any mileage in something as ridiculous as AUTOUNMASK_EXCLUDES ? Would depend on what that means, where that variable was used, and what it contains.... But the sort of breakage type it can trigger is not limited to any specific package. Pretty much any ** packages are prone to this happening, and that's so unacceptable, that people have suggested/considered removing ** packages just to avoid this issue. And that pretty much makes the defined purpose of those packages useless, and makes that keywording grade useless.