On Wed, Nov 03, 2021 at 08:53:15PM +0100, Paul Gevers wrote: > Hi Julian, > > On 03-11-2021 16:45, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > > There is some software "parsing" sources.list on its own, most of that > > is better served by `apt-get indextargets` (and for downloading stuff > > based on the urls, `apt-helper download-file`, such that it respects > > proxies and supports all transports users may use in sources.list) > > Like autopkgtest. When I was working on it to support Debian's migration > testing, I looked at python-apt and because that didn't support it, > stopped thinking. With indextargets and download-file I guess we could > work on it again. When were those introduced? Ubuntu needs it on old > releases so before autopkgtest can change it, we'd need support for a while. download-file gained hash checking support in 0.9.16, did not find when it was introduced. indextargets has been around since 1.1. (I'm not subscribed, please Cc me, I don't check archives/nntp often) -- debian developer - deb.li/jak | jak-linux.org - free software dev ubuntu core developer i speak de, en
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