apt-clone does not save or restore deb822 sources

[Nick Rosbrook]

This can be observed with the following on noble:

root@n2:~# apt policy apt-clone
apt-clone:
  Installed: 0.4.3+nmu2
  Candidate: 0.4.3+nmu2
  Version table:
 *** 0.4.3+nmu2 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
root@n2:~# ls /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
/etc/apt/sources.list

/etc/apt/sources.list.d/:
ubuntu.sources
root@n2:~# ls /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
ubuntu.sources
root@n2:~# apt-clone clone test.tar.gz
not installable:
version mismatch: dosfstools, console-setup-linux, gdisk, cloud-init, keyboard-configuration, console-setup

Note that you can use --with-dpkg-repack to include those packages in the clone file.
root@n2:~# tar xvf test.tar.gz
./var/lib/apt-clone/uname
./var/lib/apt-clone/installed.pkgs
./var/lib/apt-clone/foreign.pkgs
./var/lib/apt-clone/extended_states
./etc/apt/sources.list
./etc/apt/sources.list.d/
./etc/apt/preferences.d/
./etc/apt/preferences.d/ubuntu-pro-esm-apps
./etc/apt/preferences.d/ubuntu-pro-esm-infra
./etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/
./etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/ubuntu-keyring-2012-cdimage.gpg
./etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/ubuntu-keyring-2018-archive.gpg

Since we are going to deb822 by default, it would be nice to fix this since apt-clone is often used for debugging, especially for bug reports about upgrades.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package apt-clone - 0.4.3+nmu2ubuntu1

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apt-clone (0.4.3+nmu2ubuntu1) noble; urgency=medium

  * apt-clone: support deb822 sources on clone/restore (LP: #2057963)

 -- Nick Rosbrook <email address hidden> Thu, 14 Mar 2024 15:18:31 -0400