Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Feb 06, 2025 at 01:51:49AM -0500, songbird wrote: >> 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 think this behaviour is unlikely to change unless you report a bug > about it.
there are so many bugs filed against apt that something like this has about zero chance of being noticed or changed. also i just tried to read through the existing bugs to make sure a bug report would not be a duplicate and still have a few hundred to go and ran out of time and energy for it. this post at least warns people that this change is coming for people who are upgrading - i have the time and energy for doing something that has a chance of helping people now. the only sensible short term easy fix would be to warn that comments are discarded and that a backup copy is kept if you need to get that information back. i'm out of time and energy for the next several days so this was a quick warning for those who use testing. ... songbird
