Re: deb822 sources by default for bookworm
On Wed, Nov 03, 2021 at 05:32:53PM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 03, 2021 at 04:23:52PM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote:
> > You didn't say so explicitly, but do you plan to support old style
> > /etc/apt/sources.list until forever? ;) Or do you envision automatic
> > migration of that file? Or?
>
> I don't know, to be honest, have not thought about it yet.
>
> With APT's 5 year interface stability and major version bump,
> The first time we could remove support for old releases would be
> trixie/apt 3.0 in 2025 (that schedule just happens because I don't
> want to release .10 versions, but keep the 2nd component single
> digit :D)
>
> I think an automatic migration might be to painful what with all the
> juju and ansible and saltstack (I feel like it'd be nice to have
> those tools migrate config to new formats).
>
> Of course, once everyone and their dog has migrated, I might feel
> different and complain about legacy sources.list and deprecate
> them.
I think it would be a mistake to ever drop support for the older format.
Instructions for using it are scattered all over the place, and there'll
be an enormous long tail of things to update, not to mention things like
old forum posts that can never really be updated.
I agree we might feel different in ten years' time!
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Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwatson@debian.org]
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