Bug#864017: release-notes: Assumes /etc/apt/sources.list is used (and not /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.list or deb822) [general]
Paul Gevers wrote:
>> Justin Rye (#863975):
>>> Incidentally, the release-notes mention /etc/apt/sources.list plenty
>>> of times but never /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.list files; and soon
>>> we'll also have the option of deb822-style .sources files - see the
>>> sources.list(5) in stretch. We'll need to come up with a generic term
>>> and use that instead; I'd suggest "APT source-list files".
>
> I gave this a first shot. What do you think of the attached patch
> (should we do this via Salsa merge requests)?
(I know nothing of git, and am therefore finding salsa considerably
harder to use than the old alioth setup, but I'm hoping to get it
worked out in time to contribute with the release notes.)
All of the changes in your diff look good to me, though there's a typo
here:
> <para>
> - Lines in sources.list starting with <quote>deb ftp:</quote> and pointing to debian.org
> - addresses should be changed into <quote>deb http:</quote> lines.
> + Lines in APT source-list files starting with <literal>deb ftp:</literal> or
> + <literal>URIs: ftp:</literal>and pointing to debian.org
^
extra space needed
More importantly, the FTP servers were shut down in April 2017, so
this update was required for Jessie-to-Stretch, wasn't it? At any
rate, I find it hard to imagine very many machines as cobwebby as this
would be using a deb822-format APT config with "URIs: ftp:"!
Also, when we first mention APT configuration we need to set out what
we mean by "APT source-list files", if only by pointing at
sources.list(5).
--
JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package
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