Re: Synaptic and updated apt sources?
On Fri, 7 Feb 2025 08:39:03 -0500
Boyan Penkov <boyan.penkov@gmail.com> wrote:
> After upgrading apt this week on testing (trixie), it defaults to the
> apt822 sources
> (https://repolib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/deb822-format.html#deb822-format), which can then be enabled by a ``sudo apt modernize-sources``
>
> However, in Synaptic, clicking on Settings -> Repositories shows a
> blank list, presumably reading from the old format (it used to edit
> /etc/apt/sources.list directly).
>
Yes, but it still seems to work. Presumably it's using apt, which will
use whatever sources are available, and we can probably expect the
repository feature of Synaptic to become able to use either.
--
Joe
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