Hello again, la 8.11.2025 klo 19.34 Guillem Jover ([email protected]) kirjoitti: > 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.
Having now tried this with 1.23.0, I'm not sure that this text line accomplishes much. Hit:1 http://repos.internal/debian unstable InRelease Hit:2 https://deb.debian.org/debian unstable InRelease Hit:3 https://deb.debian.org/debian-debug unstable-debug InRelease Reading package lists... Done Merging available information Replacing available packages information from <standard input>. Information about 93049 packages was updated. IMHO, this could be reduced to (note added punctuation): Hit:1 http://repos.internal/debian unstable InRelease Hit:2 https://deb.debian.org/debian unstable InRelease Hit:3 https://deb.debian.org/debian-debug unstable-debug InRelease Reading package lists... Done. Merging available information. Updating available packages list. Information about 93049 packages was updated. Martin-Éric
