• Bug#1104283: dselect: introduce deb822 and sources.list.d awareness to

    From =?utf-8?q?Martin-=C3=89ric_Racine?=@1:229/2 to All on Mon Apr 28 11:00:01 2025
    XPost: linux.debian.bugs.dist
    From: martin-eric.racine@iki.fi

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  • From Guillem Jover@1:229/2 to All on Tue May 6 03:40:02 2025
    XPost: linux.debian.bugs.dist
    From: guillem@debian.org

    Control: reassign -1 apt

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    On Mon, 2025-04-28 at 11:53:42 +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
    Package: dselect
    Version: 1.22.18
    Severity: important
    X-Debbugs-Cc: martin-eric.racine@iki.fi

    On a fresh install to hurd-i386, dselect seemingly is blissfully unaware
    of files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d, so I pressed A to configure the
    access method. This made dselect create a new /etc/apt/sources.list
    pointing to Stable and following the old lists format:

    dselect's apt method is shipped by apt itself.

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    $ sudo dselect

    Can't exec "setterm": Tiedostoa tai hakemistoa ei ole at /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/setup line 28.
    Can't exec "setterm": Tiedostoa tai hakemistoa ei ole at /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/setup line 29.
    Use of uninitialized value $boldon in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/setup line 222.
    Use of uninitialized value $boldoff in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/setup line 222.
    Set up a list of distribution source locations

    Please give the base URL of the debian distribution.
    Use of uninitialized value $boldon in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/setup line 226.
    Use of uninitialized value $boldoff in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/setup line 227.
    The access schemes I know about are: http ftp file

    For example:
    file:/mnt/debian,
    ftp://ftp.example.org/debian,
    http://deb.debian.org/debian,


    Use of uninitialized value $boldon in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/setup line 133.
    Use of uninitialized value $boldoff in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/setup line 133.
    URL [http://deb.debian.org/debian]:

    Please give the distribution tag to get or a path to the
    package file ending in a /. The distribution
    Use of uninitialized value $boldon in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/setup line 162, <STDIN> line 1.
    tags are typically something like: Use of uninitialized value $boldoff in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/setup line 163, <STDIN> line 1.
    stable unstable testing

    Use of uninitialized value $boldon in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/setup line 165, <STDIN> line 1.
    Use of uninitialized value $boldoff in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/setup line 165, <STDIN> line 1.
    Distribution [stable]:

    Please give the components to get
    Use of uninitialized value $boldon in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/setup line 196, <STDIN> line 2.
    The components are typically something like: Use of uninitialized value $boldoff in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/setup line 197, <STDIN> line 2.
    main contrib non-free non-free-firmware

    Use of uninitialized value $boldon in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/setup line 199, <STDIN> line 2.
    Use of uninitialized value $boldoff in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/setup line 199, <STDIN> line 2.
    Components [main contrib non-free non-free-firmware]:

    Use of uninitialized value $boldon in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/setup line 249, <STDIN> line 3.
    Use of uninitialized value $boldoff in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/setup line 249, <STDIN> line 3.
    Would you like to add another source?[y/N]

    Löytyi:1 http://repos.internal/debian unstable InRelease
    Nouda:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable InRelease [151 kB]
    Löytyi:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian-ports unreleased InRelease
    Löytyi:4 http://deb.debian.org/debian-ports unstable InRelease
    Löytyi:5 http://deb.debian.org/debian unstable InRelease
    Nouda:6 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable/main Translation-en [6 109 kB] Nouda:7 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable/main Translation-fi [70,0 kB] Nouda:8 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable/main all Contents (deb) [33,9 MB] Nouda:9 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable/contrib Translation-en [48,8 kB] Nouda:10 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable/contrib all Contents (deb) [98,6 kB]
    Nouda:11 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable/non-free Translation-en [67,0 kB]
    Nouda:12 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable/non-free all Contents (deb) [839 kB]
    Nouda:13 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable/non-free-firmware Translation-en [20,9 kB]
    Nouda:14 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable/non-free-firmware all Contents (deb) [16,9 kB]
    Noudettiin 41,3 Mt ajassa 1min 31s (455 kt/s)
    Luetaan pakettiluetteloita... Valmis
    N: Skipping acquire of configured file 'main/binary-hurd-i386/Packages' as repository 'http://deb.debian.org/debian stable InRelease' doesn't support architecture 'hurd-i386'
    N: Skipping acquire of configured file 'contrib/binary-hurd-i386/Packages' as repository 'http://deb.debian.org/debian stable InRelease' doesn't support architecture 'hurd-i386'
    N: Skipping acquire of configured file 'non-free/binary-hurd-i386/Packages' as repository 'http://deb.debian.org/debian stable InRelease' doesn't support architecture 'hurd-i386'
    N: Skipping acquire of configured file 'non-free-firmware/binary-hurd-i386/Packages' as repository 'http://deb.debian.org/debian stable InRelease' doesn't support architecture 'hurd-i386'
    N: Some sources can be modernized. Run 'apt modernize-sources' to do so. Yhdistetään saatavuustiedot
    Replacing available packages info, using /var/cache/apt/available. Information about 76475 packages was updated.
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    For the record, what we have even before dselect is first run:

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