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2016-01-14evaluate sourceslist-list-format entity in vendors sources.listDavid Kalnischkies
Parsing XML entity files in shell isn't exactly nice and causing the substitution with a while-read loop isn't either, but it seems to be good enough for the moment without changing too much. Thanks: Niels Thykier for reporting on IRC
2015-08-10bring back deb822 sources.list entries as .sourcesDavid Kalnischkies
Having two different formats in the same file is very dirty and causes external tools to fail hard trying to parse them. It is probably not a good idea for them to parse them in the first place, but they do and we shouldn't break them if there is a better way. So we solve this issue for now by giving our deb822 format a new filename extension ".sources" which unsupporting applications are likely to ignore an can begin gradually moving forward rather than waiting for the unknown applications to catch up. Currently and for the forseeable future apt is going to support both with the same feature set as documented in the manpage, with the longtime plan of adopting the 'new' format as default, but that is a long way to go and might get going more from having an easier time setting options than from us pushing it explicitely.
2013-12-01generate apt-key script with vendor info about keysDavid Kalnischkies
The apt-key script uses quiet a few keyring files for operation which are specific to the distribution it is build on and is hence one of the most patched parts – even if it is not that often used anymore now that a fragment directory for trusted.gpg exists.
2013-11-30add a vendor specific file to have configurable entitiesDavid Kalnischkies
manpages sometimes refer to distro-specific things like the name of the package providing the achive-keyring. Having a central place to configure this helps in having it consistent in the manpages and allows to load this info from other places in the buildsystem as well later.