> On 5 Nov 2025, at 02:58, Haines Brown via Dng <dng@???> wrote:
>
> It seems that the DEB833 format is preferable to the tradinalal
> one line format for sources.list and so I thought it a good idea
> adopt it before an Excalibur upgrade. Here is what I tried;
>
> Enabled: yes # yes is detault. If yes, this line is optional
> Types: deb # choose deb or deb-src
> URIs: http://deb.devuan.org/devuan # the base of archive
> Suites: excalibur # path of suite relative to URI
> Components: main contrib non-free non-free-firmware # sections
>
> Enabled: yes
> Types: deb
> URIs: http://deb.devuan.org
> Suites: excalbur-security
> Components: main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
>
> Enabled: yes
> Types: deb
> URIs: http://deb.devuan.org
> Suites: excalbur-updates
> Components: main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
>
> Enabled: yes
> Types: deb
> URIs: http://deb.devuan.org
> Suites: excalbur-proposed
> Components: main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
>
> Enabled: yes
> Types: deb
> URIs: http://deb.devuan.org
> Suites: excalbur-backports
> Components: main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
>
> Unfortunately, none of the key terms were recognized.
> Also I did not know what to do with the old /merged, as
> in deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged.
>
> Why wouldn't Devuan Daedalus apt accept the DEV822 format?

The updated apt package in excalibur comes with a new command `apt modernize-sources` which will automatically convert your old sources.list format to the DEB822 format.

Maybe that’s an easier way to do the conversion after upgrading to excalibur.

Tom