Now if the Opera package could stop grep'ing the /etc/apt/sources.list file that would be nice too, at least there doesn't seem to be any issues with that being a blank file I suppose.

@jepjepus said in Outdated SourcesList entry after Opera installation or update (Debian/sid):

I ended up commenting out the 'deb' line in the opera-stable.list file and left it coexisting with the opera-stable.sources I created.

Thanks!

I hadn't considered doing that as I assumed it'd be blindly overwritten when using chattr failed to work.

I finally got round to modernising all my systems and hit the same problem.

Has anyone found a solution?

Making an empty file and using chattr +i on it also doesn't help because then package updates fails.

While apt in Debian 13 urges people to migrate, .sources files seem to be supported in Ubuntu 24.04 and Debian 12.

Why does the Opera package always need to create/update an apt config file any way?