On Fri, 02 May 2025 00:00:04 +0530 Siddh Raman Pant <sangan...@siddh.me> wrote:
> Hi, > > Now that we have deb822 format for specifying APT repo which includes > everything within one file, the user should be discouraged from using > old styles where the GPG key is stored in a "keyring" (whether it be a > trusted keyring or just a folder in another place with that name). > > Far too many places mention the legacy and old styles. That includes > software docs which are maintained. > > One cannot possibly open issues and convince in every repo, provided > if the software or doc-cycle are open in the first place. > > A big red warning (and not error / failure) will bring a much needed > kinetic force for the change IMO, on the same lines as the warning > when using the old apt-keys stuff. > > Hence, I request for making deb822 the default format and deprecating > the previous .list method with a noisy warning. > > This mailing list/newsgroup is read by users, almost all of whom are not developers. You need to raise this in a bug report with the appropriate severity, which is wishlist in this case. https://www.debian.org/Bugs/ Those of us using apt already get a message informing us the there are legacy sources, which in my case is Opera. Even though Opera does have a new-style source declaration, Opera insists on recreating the legacy sources.list with its own entry on each upgrade, which I later delete. I'm sure this will be fixed soon. But we were informed of this a couple of months ago. There is an automatic moderniser which is offered by apt if legacy sources are found. The usual Debian way is to issue warnings of deprecation and removal when actual dates have been decided. We've had the deprecation one. -- Joe
