Hi, Quoting Martin-Éric Racine (2025-01-29 07:55:45) > This being said, would it be possible to add an option to work on files at > arbitrary locations and output them to stdout? This would allow someone to > perform a conversion on files for other hosts and then distribute the results > manually.
I second this request for a different reason.
The one-line format is a very compact way for working with apt sources. For
example the mmdebstrap man page suggests this example:
--setup-hook='echo "deb http..." > "$1"/etc/apt/sources.list.d/custom.list'
If modernize-sources would be able to turn one-line format on standard input
into deb822 format on standard-output, the above could become:
--setup-hook='echo "deb http..." | modernize-sources >
"$1"/etc/apt/sources.list.d/custom.list'
I'd find that much nicer than the alternative which would be to either write
multi-line deb822 content as part of a CLI invocation or first write the
one-line format to /etc/apt/sources.list and then run modernize-sources.
Thanks!
cheers, josch
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