Hi,

Haines Brown via Dng <dng@???> writes:

> 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

Eh, you might want to s/excalbur/excalibur/ on that and all the other
Suites: as well.

The URIs also need the /merged bit appended.

> [...]

> 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?

Because you made a boo-boo ;-)

Here's what I have been using since 2025-01-08

  $cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/devuan.sources
  Types: deb
  URIs: http://deb.devuan.org/merged
  Suites: daedalus-security daedalus-updates daedalus-backports daedalus
  Components: main non-free-firmware
  Signed-By:
    /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/devuan-keyring-2016-archive.gpg

Hope this helps,
--
Olaf Meeuwissen