On Thu, Nov 04, 2021 at 12:13:48AM +0800, Shengjing Zhu wrote: > On Wed, Nov 3, 2021 at 11:45 PM Julian Andres Klode <j...@debian.org> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I'd like us to move from > > > > /etc/apt/sources.list > > > > to > > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources > > > > While it's really a nice feature for the third-party repository, I > don't see the benefits to change the default one, especially the path. > I had to admit that I have countless scripts which run `sed > /etc/apt/souces.list`, to change the default mirror, as well as in the > Dockerfile.
There's a technical limitation in that we get the format from the file extension. It's a bit annoying. Also this makes multi-origin downstream distros cleaner, so you can have /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources /etc/apt/sources.list.d/downstream.sources instead of worrying about either creating a combined sources.list or dropping just your downstream bits into sources.list.d We'll have to see how much trouble that causes, and it might work to make sources.list a symlink to sources.list.d/debian.sources, and have apt inspect readlink() to get the "real" file extension for sources.list -- debian developer - deb.li/jak | jak-linux.org - free software dev ubuntu core developer i speak de, en