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Bug#478098: apt: sources.list manpage is unclear about sources.list.d



By the way, it might be helpful to see whether the patch attached to #399947 fixes this problem; if it does, it may be worth updating #399947.

	-Tim Abbott

On Tue, 29 Apr 2008, Timothy G Abbott wrote:

This bug is deeper than I thought. The source code in sources.list.5.xml looks correct, but it seems docbook2man incorrectly doesn't escape dot when it's not at the start of a line (apparently #399947), causing the man page to have errors (apparently, the package has two lintian warnings about this).

Attached is what I believe to be a workaround patch that makes the <literal>.list</literal> in sources.list.5.xml not be at the start of a line; you'll also need to regenerate sources.list.5 from this.

	-Tim Abbott

On Sun, 27 Apr 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote:

Timothy G Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU> writes:

Package: apt
Version: 0.7.11
Severity: minor

The man pages for sources.list describes the sources.list.d directory
as follows:

SOURCES.LIST.D
       The /etc/apt/sources.list.d directory provides a way to add
sources.list entries in seperate files that end with sources.list
file.

I think it should be:

SOURCES.LIST.D
       The /etc/apt/sources.list.d directory provides a way to add
sources.list entries in seperate files whose names end with .list.

since that is more grammatical, and the filename ending seems to only
need to have .list, not sources.list, for apt to pick up files in
/etc/apt/sources.list.d.

Could you take  the lastest apt sources and produce a diff making the
suggested change?

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