On Thu May 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM BST, Siddh Raman Pant wrote:
A big red warning (and not error / failure) will bring a much needed kinetic force for the change IMO, on the same lines as the warning when using the old apt-keys stuff. Hence, I request for making deb822 the default format and deprecating the previous .list method with a noisy warning.
You ask in the wrong place: try debian-devel, or file a request against the relevant packages (apt?)
However, can I point out that the pre-822 format has been around for *27 years*: it's going to take a long time for people who are familiar with it to internalise the new format. Introducing nagging warnings too soon will frustrate people. We will have to be a bit patient.
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