On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 3:19 PM Colin Watson <cjwat...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 05:30:27PM +0100, Thomas Bechtold wrote: > > So my understanding is, that we would need to adjust live-build and/or > > livecd-rootfs to use the deb822 format. And if we do that, would > > we also need to adjust launchpad-buildd to handle the new format, too? > > I don't think we can reasonably switch to writing out the new format > from launchpad-buildd in the short term; it would require some > not-quite-trivial changes to Launchpad as well, and we're short-staffed > at the moment with a lot of other stuff going on, so taking on more > refactoring work doesn't really appeal. We've also recently dispatched > builds for trusty (though I didn't check exactly why), and I believe its > apt is too old to support the deb822 format, so we need to retain > compatibility with it for a while longer. >
I believe it was introduced in APT 1.1, which means it was first made available to Ubuntu users with Ubuntu 16.04. > The simplest change might be to make launchpad-buildd ensure that the > new default sources.list path (/etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu.sources?) > doesn't exist, and then just write out the old format to sources.list as > before. > > I definitely anticipate lots of breakage from this change! I hope all > the effort will be worth it. > Having a more comprehensible apt source configuration is definitely worth it. :) -- Neal Gompa (FAS: ngompa) -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
