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

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 2:28 AM <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
>
> 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.

SSH config files are located in /etc, too. But admins are expected to
make changes to /etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/, and not /etc/ssh/sshd_config.
That allows the SSH package maintainer to update or replace
sshd_config.

Jeff