Re: New emdebian releases of apt-cross and emdebian-tools
> emsetup previously added the emdebian toolchain repository
> to /etc/apt/sources.list directly. In v0.1.4 this has changed. Instead,
> the emdebian repository sources are added
> to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/emdebian.sources.list - utilising the
> supported method of adding new sources within apt. This was done for a
> couple of reasons:
>
> 1. When experimenting with a debootstrap environment (see the pbuilder
> directory in emdebian-tools SVN), it became obvious that
> modifying /etc/apt/sources.list in emsetup was going to be problematic.
> (It also threw some light on Richard's problem with secondary Debian
> mirrors like ftp.debian.org - that URL comes from debootstrap and
> causes no end of hassle for emdebian-tools because the secondary mirror
> only has 2 architectures).
>
> 2. The normal place to modify conffiles is the maintainer scripts and
> using sources.list.d/ allows emdebian-tools to undo the change very
> easily when the package is purged. That makes the change worthwhile.
3. Modifying other package's configuration files in not allowed by debian
policy.
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