On Fri, Nov 05, 2021 at 06:16:10PM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > On Thu, Nov 04, 2021 at 12:13:48AM +0800, Shengjing Zhu wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 3, 2021 at 11:45 PM Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org> wrote: > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I'd like us to move from > > > > > > /etc/apt/sources.list > > > > > > to > > > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources > > > > > > > While it's really a nice feature for the third-party repository, I > > don't see the benefits to change the default one, especially the path. > > I had to admit that I have countless scripts which run `sed > > /etc/apt/souces.list`, to change the default mirror, as well as in the > > Dockerfile. (fwiw you could use a 'mirror+file' entry (see man apt-transport-mirror) specifying your preferred mirror of the day. As a bonus that will reuse the files of the old mirror instead of discarding them blindly) > There's a technical limitation in that we get the format from the file > extension. It's a bit annoying. It was shortly the case that .list files could contain both formats, but I opted to change that as of course countless things poking into those files broke left and right. cups used to detect if it ran on a Debian-like system by checking the sources.list file for deb entries… I doubt it does nowadays as there are countless better options now, I just mention it as trivial example of the type of unexpected breakage which is to be expected… Best regards David Kalnischkies
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