apt-setup: replacement of sources.list by debian.sources
Hello,
I'd like to see the change from sources.list to debian.sources file
for the next release. There is a wishlist bug already posted for the
current stable but it was too late (#1032131), and perhaps no
volunteer to implement it.
I cloned the repository of apt-setup [1] and tried to run it:
$ mkdir output
$ ./apt-setup output
After several echo and dirty modifications, there is a quiet error
because 'apt-setup/progress/title doesn't exist'. I guess I'm not
executing it properly.
- What is the correct way to develop on this source code?
- Is there a documentation about it somewhere else?
Other topic on same repository:
`find . -name "*ubuntu*"` shows two files:
- 'generators/50mirror.ubuntu' file. It has not be modified
significantly since 2015.
- 'debian/apt-mirror-setup.templates-ubuntu' file. It has not be
modified since 2009.
Ubuntu has migrated to ubuntu.sources with 24.04 release. The new text
provided inside their sources.list is not in the 'master' branch so I
guess Ubuntu uses other tools or modifies it downstream.
So I wonder if these files could be removed because it would an easier
step than replacing sources.list to start working on the repository.
- Do you know if it's deletable?
- If not, do you have a right contact in Debian or Ubuntu to ask? I
think to send a message to Colin Watson which was the main commiter on
these files.
I subscribed to the mailing list.
1: https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/apt-setup
Regards,
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Stéphane
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