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The CDN service deb.d.o is more reliable than the http
redirector, so switch to it for our examples.
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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
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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.
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It can be useful to have a whole makefile available for vendor setup,
but by providing a basic one we can deal with the simple cases more
easily (and changes to the system are presumably easier).
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Many derivatives make quiet a few simple changes to apt introducing
silly diffs just to change examples and co making it harder for
them to update apt and harder for us to merge real changes back.
First stop: doc/examples/sources.list
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