Oh I'm well aware and have discussed this a couple of times. We have since switched to deb822 sources, and the regression potential for adding support for legacy source options is quite high.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to python-apt in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2070432 Title: aptsources: Legitimate entries are set to invalid when options are present Status in python-apt package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: [Impact] Ubuntu Release Upgrader uses python-apt for apt operations, including parsing and making sure the sources.list file is sensible. Options are placed in square brackets [] after the initial deb as key value pairs. e.g. deb [lang=en] http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal main restricted sets the lang option. If you look at man sources.list(5), there are a number of options supported: * arch * lang * target * pdiffs * by-hash * allow-insecure * trusted * signed-by * check-valid-until * valid-until-min * check-date * date-max-future * inrelease-path * snapshot Currently, only arch and trusted are the only ones implemented: https://git.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python- apt/tree/aptsources/sourceslist.py?h=applied/ubuntu/focal-updates#n202 def parse(self, line): ... if pieces[1].strip()[0] == "[": options = pieces.pop(1).strip("[]").split() for option in options: try: key, value = option.split("=", 1) except Exception: self.invalid = True else: if key == "arch": self.architectures = value.split(",") elif key == "trusted": self.trusted = apt_pkg.string_to_bool(value) else: self.invalid = True Usage of any others causes entries to be set invalid, and Ubuntu Release Upgrader then requires you to set new entries before it can proceed. This is a problem when used with an internal aptly mirror, using signed-by. The error seen on do-release-upgrade is: No valid mirror found While scanning your repository information no mirror entry for the upgrade was found. This can happen if you run an internal mirror or if the mirror information is out of date. Do you want to rewrite your 'sources.list' file anyway? If you choose 'Yes' here it will update all 'focal' to 'jammy' entries. If you select 'No' the upgrade will cancel. [Testcase] Simply set any supported option at all to sources.list: e.g. $ sudo sed -i "s/deb/deb [lang=en]/g" /etc/apt/sources.list and run: #!/bin/python3 from aptsources.sourceslist import SourcesList, SourceEntry source = SourcesList() for entry in source.list: if (entry.invalid == False and entry.disabled == False): print(entry.uri + ' ' + entry.dist + ' ' + entry.comps[0]) You will get no output at all. We would expect output like: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal main http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates main http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal universe http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates universe http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal multiverse http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates multiverse http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports main http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security main http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security universe http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security multiverse [Other info] This seems to have been the case since 2011, and no one has really hit it. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-apt/+bug/2070432/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
