Re: Feature request: Make deb822 default and deprecate old-style sources.list

2025-05-06 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu May 1, 2025 at 9:17 PM BST, Jonathan Dowland wrote: However, can I point out that the pre-822 format has been around for *27 years*: it's going to take a long time for people who are familiar with it to internalise the new format. Introducing nagging warnings too soon will frustrate peop

Re: Feature request: Make deb822 default and deprecate old-style sources.list

2025-05-01 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2025-05-02, Siddh Raman Pant wrote: > 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 anot

Re: Feature request: Make deb822 default and deprecate old-style sources.list

2025-05-01 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu May 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM BST, Siddh Raman Pant wrote: 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 deprecat

Re: Feature request: Make deb822 default and deprecate old-style sources.list

2025-05-01 Thread Joe
On Fri, 02 May 2025 00:00:04 +0530 Siddh Raman Pant 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 ke