On Sun, May 11, 2025 at 09:34:44PM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote:
I read some advice recently that suggested taking the time some thing
has existed to be a "half-life" for deprecation. So, if the pre-deb822
format has existed for 27 years and we deprecated it now, we can
expect 50% of users will ha
On 01/05/2025 21:17, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
On Thu May 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM BST, Siddh Raman Pant wrote:
A big red warning (and not error / failure) will bring a much needed
kinetic force for the change IMO, on the same lines as the warning when
using the old apt-keys stuff.
Hence, I request for
On Thu May 1, 2025 at 9:17 PM BST, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
However, can I point out that the pre-822 format has been around for
*27 years*: it's going to take a long time for people who are familiar
with it to internalise the new format. Introducing nagging warnings
too soon will frustrate peop
On 2025-05-02, Siddh Raman Pant wrote:
> Now that we have deb822 format for specifying APT repo which includes
> everything within one file, the user should be discouraged from using
> old styles where the GPG key is stored in a "keyring" (whether it be a
> trusted keyring or just a folder in anot
On Thu May 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM BST, Siddh Raman Pant wrote:
A big red warning (and not error / failure) will bring a much needed
kinetic force for the change IMO, on the same lines as the warning when
using the old apt-keys stuff.
Hence, I request for making deb822 the default format and deprecat
On Fri, 02 May 2025 00:00:04 +0530
Siddh Raman Pant wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Now that we have deb822 format for specifying APT repo which includes
> everything within one file, the user should be discouraged from using
> old styles where the GPG key is stored in a "keyring" (whether it be a
> trusted ke
Hi,
Now that we have deb822 format for specifying APT repo which includes
everything within one file, the user should be discouraged from using
old styles where the GPG key is stored in a "keyring" (whether it be a
trusted keyring or just a folder in another place with that name).
Far too many pl
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