Bug#839259: W: Target Contents-deb-legacy (Contents-{amd64, i386, all}) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 1.4~beta1
> Followup-For: Bug #839259
> 
> Maintainers,
> 
> Could we please hear the rationale for this change?
> 
> More to the point, what would a non-legacy target be expected to look like?
> 
> Cheers!
> Martin-Éric	
> 
> 
> 


Hi,

This is partly due to apt-file supporting "Contents" files on mirrors
without components.  The other part is how apt handles multiple sources
lines for the same entry with this fetch rule from apt-file.

If you only fetch items from Debian mirrors, you can trivially avoid
this warning by setting:

  Acquire::IndexTargets::deb::Contents-deb-legacy::DefaultEnabled

to "false" in /etc/apt.conf.d/99local.conf (or a similar file).
Alternatively you can remove the "deb::Contents-deb-legacy" from
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50apt-file.conf.

The only current other alternative is to rewrite the sources file so
there is only one entry per mirror/suite.  The "deb822" format may come
in handy here to keep things readable.  The format is described in
sources.list.

Thanks,
~Niels