[Bug 1697120] Re: artful's apt-file and aptitude complains about Ubuntu sources.list

[Timo Aaltonen]

Hello Jeremy, or anyone else affected,

Accepted apt into zesty-proposed. The package will build now and be
available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/1.4.8 in a few
hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package.  See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how
to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this
update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug,
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the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag
to verification-failed-zesty. In either case, details of your testing
will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification .  Thank you in
advance!

** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu Zesty)
       Status: In Progress => Fix Committed

** Tags added: verification-needed verification-needed-zesty

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Title:
  artful's apt-file and aptitude complains about Ubuntu sources.list

Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in apt source package in Zesty:
  Fix Committed
Status in apt package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [Impact]
  apt-file is now difficult to use with about a dozen warnings like this:

  W: Target Contents-deb-legacy (Contents-amd64) is configured multiple
  times in /etc/apt/sources.list:6 and /etc/apt/sources.list:17

  For reference, this is line 6:
  deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ artful main restricted

  And this is line 17:
  deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ artful universe

  This is how Ubuntu's default sources.list has been structured since
  the beginning? (or at least more than a decade).

  What I expect
  -------------
  The warning isn't specific enough. Lines 6 and 17 are not actually duplicates. The warning could be removed or fixed so that it doesn't complain about non-duplicates.

  Or the warning could be disabled on Ubuntu.

  See also
  --------
  LP: #1579372

  [Test case]
  Install apt-file and update, make sure that the warnings are gone.

  [Regression potential]
  Warnings about duplicate index targets containing "legacy" in their configured name are not shown anymore, thus it's harder to "fix" servers. But apart from that, which was the goal, I don't see any.

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