Tue, 4 Nov 2025 10:54:33 -0500 - Haines Brown via Dng <dng@???>:

> 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?


If I can express a personal thought, I cannot understand either the meaning,
the motivation, or the possible usefulness of abandoning a simple,
intuitively understandable format, easily parsable by row and space-separated
fields, to move to a "modern" format (sic!) which has nothing better and
which is just a useless waste of time and effort.

Regards
alexus


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