when doing the upgrade you do have the option of doing a test run to see what changes are made or not making the changes at that time.
when going through this process the comments in sources.list were discarded. i don't know about other people or what they put in sources.list, but i normally kept different entries commented out if i wasn't using them and then when i needed them i could uncomment them out, run apt-get update and then continue on with what i needed to accomplish. the new format allows for a flag to toggle the entry being active or not. without those comments being there i had to go back and remove the changes that apt made restore the old sources.list file, uncomment out everything and then rerun the upgrade of apt. noting that some parts were not finished and moved to a different file that will need to be updated if i need them again (stable and oldstable), i added a bit about this to the top of sources.list in comments, i hope they are not removed again some other time... $ man 5 sources.list ===== From NEWS.Debian.gz apt (2.9.24) unstable; urgency=medium /etc/apt/trusted.gpg is no longer trusted. Setting the Dir::Etc::trusted option manually continues to work for some more time. sources.list(5) entries without the Signed-By field are deprecated; migrate any legacy entries to the deb822 .sources format. See the apt-secure(8) manual page for best practices for signer configuration. This deprecates the /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d directory. ===== songbird
