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Re: [SOLVED] Re: old entries in sources.list?



On Thu, Jun 19, 2025 at 05:40:24PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:

[...]

> It might be worth mentioning that if the package owns sources.list,
> then you should not edit it. You should allow the package maintainer
> to edit or replace sources.list. Place your changes in
> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/.

  tomas@caliban:~$ dpkg -S /etc/apt/sources.list
  dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /etc/apt/sources.list

It seems no package "owns" sources.list. Besides, it's in /etc, so by
convention it would be a conffile [1], i.e. Debian expects the sysadmin
to change things and copes with it.


Cheers
-- 
t

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