Re: Dropping Release and Release.gpg support from APT

[Philipp Kern <phil@philkern.de>]

On 2019-07-10 10:04, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 10:35:25AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 2:53 AM Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> >
> > > Timeline suggestion
> > > -------------------
> > > now         add a warning to apt 1.9.x for repositories w/o InRelease, but Release{,.gpg}
> > > Aug/Sep     turn the warning into an error, overridable with an option (?)
> > > Q1 2020     remove the code
[...]
> We do need them to ship InRelease files. I just filed an issue for OBS
> to do that. Given how long we had InRelease file, and how confusing it
> is to not provide InRelease files (not to mention that it doubles the
> traffic for no-change cases), I'm surprised they aren't using InRelease
> files yet.

Given the timeline, shouldn't we also get oldstable to ship an InRelease 
file?

Kind regards
Philipp Kern