Hi,

Thank you for your keen eyes.

Yes, I agree the file name reference "/etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.source" is an
important bug to be fixed ASAP to  "/etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.sources".

(It's my careless typo.)

Let me work on this for all languages.

Osamu

On Thu, 2026-01-01 at 23:42 +0100, Quazgar wrote:
> Package: debian-reference
> Severity: normal
> X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> in ch02, the documentation mentions the deb822 apt sources files, and says
> their file extension is ".source", but in reality it's ".sources".
> 
> To people who are new to the deb822 specs, this may lead to misnaming their
> files, and subsequently package sources will not be found.  (apt-update prints
> warnings however about the unrecognized files.)
> 
> The occurrences I found in "Chapter 2. Debian package management" so far, in
> are:
> 
> > This can be defined anywhere in the "/etc/apt/sources.list" file,
> "/etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.list" files, or "/etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.source"
> files.
> 
> and
> 
> > It's definition files are in "/etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.source" files.
> 
> `*.source` should be changed to `*.sources` here.
> 

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