Hi! On Sun, 2025-11-02 at 11:41:15 +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > Package: dselect > Version: 1.22.21 > Severity: normal > X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
> dselect displays the above on a system that has either an empty or > non-existent /etc/apt/sources.list file. Meanwhile dselects' APT > method obviously can use /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.[list|sources] > as normal. However, the above prompt is misleading. > Perhaps dselect should be updated to list all files found in > /etc/apt/sources.list[.d/*] and omit empty files? This is not related to the apt source.list files or their format. This is a recent change that switched the «dpkg --update-avail» invocation to get its input from a «apt-cache dumpavail» pipe instead of having to use a temporary file, which nowadays can be large. https://salsa.debian.org/apt-team/apt/-/commit/4d6fcb1dddd5654e7ba8bfa2705bbb4f2c4a6884 I've updated the information message in dpkg to print in this case the following text instead: ,--- Replacing available packages information from <standard input>. `--- Which should be more clear, but I'm not sure whether it would help with the confusion reported here? Otherwise, except for completely suppressing the message from the apt's dselect method (in which case this would need to be reassigned into apt), there's not much I think can be done. Thanks, Guillem
