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Bug#1095305: modernize-sources should not discard comments

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On Thu, Feb 06, 2025 at 02:58:15PM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote:
> 
> Package: apt
> Version: 2.9.26
> Severity: normal
> 
> apt modernize-sources apparently discards comments found in apt source
> list files, which may be notes for humans or temporarily unused
> data sources.
> 
> They should be retained as comments.
> 

We are aware, we do not have access to the sources.list parser state,
only very processed objects further down the stack.

But even with access, comments are complicated, because you now
need to associate the comments with entries.

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Bug#1095305: modernize-sources should not discard comments Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2025-02-06 21:10 +0100
  Bug#1095305: modernize-sources should not discard comments Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org> - 2025-02-25 21:50 +0100

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