Control: severity -1 wishlist
Control: reassign -1 python3-apt
Control: tag -1 wontfix

On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 12:34:04AM +0100, AG wrote:
> Package: software-properties-common
> Version: 0.96.20.2-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> the helper tool
>         add-apt-repository
> modifies all existing source files
>         sources.list
>         sources.list.d/*
> reformatting the comments unnecessarily.
> 
> Example of the change:
> 
> -#deb [arch=amd64,i386] http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ unstable main 
> contrib non-free
> +# deb [arch=amd64,i386] http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ unstable main 
> contrib non-free
> 
> 
> I do expect a "Debian" tool to perform the requested task minimally, and not
> to unexpectedly touch all available files in a folder.
> The repository i requested to add was actually added at the very end of
> sources.list.

Well, it's not that easy. And this is a minor cosmetic difference you
have to live with - I'm not going to risk stuff by playing with the
algorithms there. It's fragile enough already :(

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