Package: apt Version: 3.0.0 Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: cardboardaardv...@gmail.com
Dear Maintainer, It would be beneficial to allow admins to silence the notice from apt about source configuration files that are using the outdated format. I think that outputting the notice is good behavior by default but in some situations the notice becomes noise because it is not possible to change the source configurations with out breaking something. I have third party packages installed which themselves install and maintain files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ most notably the VS Code application. The Microsoft install process for VS Code is as follows: 1) Download the .deb from Microsoft 2) Install the .deb using dpkg 3) The postinst script will create vscode.list in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ 4) The contents of vscode.list warn about local changes to the file being lost Now I'm pretty sure that overwriting the contents of files in /etc from postinst is a violation of Debian packaging standards so strictly defined there is a problem with the Microsoft created Debian package. As the administrator of my system the out of date sources notice has already informed me of the situation and I am aware of it. I do not want to adjust the contents of the vscode.list file to avoid breaking that may happen with future updates that come from Microsoft (which also come frequently). This means the out of date sources config file notice has become noise. It would be nice if I could set a configuration value in apt to not output the notice to me so I can reduce the noise. I don't see such an option being available in the output of "apt-config dump" -- Package-specific info: -- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) -- -- (no /etc/apt/preferences.d/* present) -- -- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) -- -- (/etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list present, but not submitted) -- -- (/etc/apt/sources.list.d/element-io.list present, but not submitted) -- -- (/etc/apt/sources.list.d/ksp-ckan.list present, but not submitted) -- -- (/etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list present, but not submitted) -- -- (/etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq-trixie.sources present, but not submitted) -- -- System Information: Debian Release: trixie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 6.12.21-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages apt depends on: ii adduser 3.150 ii base-passwd 3.6.7 ii debian-archive-keyring 2025.1 ii libapt-pkg7.0 3.0.0 ii libc6 2.41-6 ii libgcc-s1 14.2.0-19 ii libseccomp2 2.6.0-2 ii libssl3t64 3.5.0-1 ii libstdc++6 14.2.0-19 ii libsystemd0 257.5-2 ii sqv 1.3.0-1 Versions of packages apt recommends: ii ca-certificates 20241223 Versions of packages apt suggests: pn apt-doc <none> pn aptitude | synaptic | wajig <none> ii dpkg-dev 1.22.18 ii gnupg 2.2.46-6 ii powermgmt-base 1.38 -- no debconf information
