Hmm, good question. but inside /etc/apt is no debian.sources.
user@debian-13-xfce:/$ ls /etc/apt/
apt.conf.d keyrings sources.list trusted.gpg.d
auth.conf.d preferences.d sources.list.d
user@debian-13-xfce:/$ ls /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
qubes-r4.list
Let’s cc: @marmarek @alimirjamali
I am not Marek or a part of Qubes OS core team and I can not talk on their behalf. Just an ordinary forum users like others.
Having said the above, for people who did in-place upgrade of their Whonix 17 to (Trixie based) Whonix 18 and if they want to update their apt files from the old .list format to the new .source format, Whonix project provides a nice repository-dist bash utility which automates this conversion.
In Qubes OS (native) Debian template case, since Debian 12 is still supported, It might be the case that maintaining two versions of the file is harder than just having one and less problematic. But again, this is my personal hypnosis.
Once we don’t need to support Debian 12 anymore, we can migrate to the new format. Old format is fully supported in Debian 13 too, so migrating now is not strictly necessary.
There is an open issue on GitHub for this.
Deb822 is recommended, but not mandatory until 2029, so plenty of time
to put this in place.
I never presume to speak for the Qubes team.
When I comment in the Forum I speak for myself.
There is an open issue on GitHub for this.
Deb822 is recommended, but not mandatory until 2029, so plenty of time
to put this in place.
Understood. Just wanted to mention this, because Whonix-18 has already
switched to the new standard.