Bug#1104283: dselect: introduce deb822 and sources.list.d awareness to Access method configuration

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: [email protected]

> 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.

> ----------
> $ 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.
> ----------
> 
> For the record, what we have even before dselect is first run:
> 
> ----------
> $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources 
> Types: deb deb-src
> URIs: http://deb.debian.org/debian-ports/
> Suites: unreleased
> Components: main
> Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/debian-ports-archive-keyring.gpg
> 
> Types: deb
> URIs: http://deb.debian.org/debian-ports/
> Suites: unstable
> Components: main
> Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/debian-ports-archive-keyring.gpg
> 
> Types: deb deb-src
> URIs: http://deb.debian.org/debian/
> Suites: unstable
> Components: main
> Architectures: all
> Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg
> ----------
> $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/funkyware.sources 
> Types: deb deb-src
> URIs: http://repos.internal/debian/
> Suites: unstable
> Components: main contrib non-free
> Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/funkyware-archive-unstable.pgp
> ----------
> 
> The setterm errors are probably due to Hurd missing a few packages in
> its bootstrap. This can be safely ignored for the purpose of this bug
> report.
> 
> The real issue is dselect insisting on creating an old-style
> sources.list since it seemingly cannot deal with deb822 *.sources by
> default. It would be a good idea to fix this on time for Trixie.
> 
> Thanks!
> Martin-Éric
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: trixie/sid
>   APT prefers unreleased
>   APT policy: (995, 'unreleased'), (990, 'unstable')
> Architecture: hurd-i386 (i686-AT386)
> 
> Kernel: GNU-Mach 1.8+git20250304-up-486/Hurd-0.9
> Locale: LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fi:en
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
> Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
> 
> Versions of packages dselect depends on:
> ii  hurd-libs0.3  1:0.9.git20250420-1
> ii  libc0.3       2.41-8~1
> ii  libmd0        1.1.0-2+b1
> ii  libncursesw6  6.5+20250216-2
> ii  libtinfo6     6.5+20250216-2
> 
> dselect recommends no packages.
> 
> Versions of packages dselect suggests:
> ii  libdpkg-perl  1.22.18
> ii  perl          5.40.1-3
> 
> -- no debconf information

Thanks,
Guillem