My fresh Excalibur install has sources.list still in the old single
line format.

Bracham

On Wed, 2025-11-05 at 11:22 +1100, wirelessduck--- via Dng wrote:
>
>
> > 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
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