Re: [Synaptic-devel] [Bug #3311] support /etc/apt/sources.list.d/

[Gustavo Niemeyer]

> Synaptic doesn't see anything in the sources.list.d directory since it's
> doing all the reading and parsing of sources.list by itself. I have
> beginnings of a patch to add support for it, it's easy to make it read the
> sources.list.d stuff (basically just copy the relevant code from apt-rpm),

Woohoo! :-)

> editing them sanely is another issue: without proper support for it in the 
> editor the changes will be written to sources.list instead of the 
> originating sources.list.d entry. I started work on it as well but 
> didn't quite finish it (C++ is anything but "native tongue"  for me :).

That's great.. I was worried about that when I accepted the multiple
sources.list patch. I'm glad you're working on it.

Please, leave us informed about problems you have, and progress you make.

Thanks!

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Gustavo Niemeyer

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