Make `apt` shut up about "modernize-sources" in Trixie

nospam@example.com (Daniel Lange) — Sat, 03 May 2025 12:22:00 +0000

Apt in Trixie (Debian 13) has the annoying function to tell you "Notice: Some sources can be modernized. Run 'apt modernize-sources' to do so." ... every single time you run apt update. Not cool for logs and log monitoring.

And - of course - if you had the option to do this, you ... would have run the indicated apt modernize-sources command to convert your sources.list to "deb822 .sources format" files already. So an information message once or twice would have done.

Well, luckily you can help yourself:

apt -o APT::Get::Update::SourceListWarnings=false will keep apt shut up. This could go into an alias or your systems management tool / update script.

Alternatively add

# Keep apt shut about preferring the "deb822" sources file format
APT::Get::Update::SourceListWarnings "false";

to /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10quellsourceformatwarnings .

This silences the notices about sources file formats (not only the deb822 one) system-wide. That way you can decide when you can / want to migrate to the new, more verbose, apt sources format yourself.

Update 06.06.2025

I looks like the powers that are have had mercy, apt 3.0.2 has migrated to Trixie two days ago and the Changelog contains:

Downgrade "modernize-sources" notice to audit

Getting rid of the Google cookie consent popup

nospam@example.com (Daniel Lange) — Fri, 18 Sep 2020 09:15:00 +0000

If you clear your browser cookies regularly (as you should do), Google will annoy you with a full screen cookie consent overlay these days. And - of course - there is no "no tracking consent, technically required cookies only" button. You may log in to Google to set your preference. Yeah, I'm sure this is totally following the intent of the EU Directive 2009/136/EC (the "cookie law").

Unfortunately none of the big "anti-annoyances" filter lists seem to have picked that one up yet but the friendly folks from the Computerbase Forum [German] to the rescue. User "Sepp Depp" has created the base of the following filter set that WFM (updated by "mru62" since):

Add this to your uBlock Origin "My filters" tab:

! Google - remove cookie-consent-popup and restore scroll functionality
! Updated 26.12.2022
google.*###lb
google.*##html:style(overflow: visible !important;)

! And for Youtube
! Updated 26.12.2022
www.youtube.com##.opened
www.youtube.com###dialog
www.youtube.com##.no-transition.yt-upsell-dialog-renderer.style-scope

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Make `apt` shut up about "modernize-sources" in Trixie

Update 06.06.2025

Getting rid of the Google cookie consent popup