Re: testing apt upgrade 2.9.23 to 2.9.26 changes to sources.list

[songbird <songbird@anthive.com>]

Andy Smith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Feb 06, 2025 at 01:51:49AM -0500, songbird wrote:
>>   when doing the upgrade you do have the option of doing
>> a test run to see what changes are made or not making the
>> changes at that time.
>> 
>>   when going through this process the comments in
>> sources.list were discarded.
>
> I think this behaviour is unlikely to change unless you report a bug
> about it.

  there are so many bugs filed against apt that something like
this has about zero chance of being noticed or changed.  also i
just tried to read through the existing bugs to make sure a
bug report would not be a duplicate and still have a few
hundred to go and ran out of time and energy for it.

  this post at least warns people that this change is coming
for people who are upgrading - i have the time and energy for
doing something that has a chance of helping people now.

  the only sensible short term easy fix would be to warn that
comments are discarded and that a backup copy is kept if you
need to get that information back.

  i'm out of time and energy for the next several days so this
was a quick warning for those who use testing.

...
  songbird