Debian modernizing sources list

[advice1010]

Not sure if anyone will know what this means/has heard of this and I do not have a specific source to link.

I have seen that in I guess in upcoming Debian 13? that Debian will be "modernizing" how sources.list file will work.
I was wondering if anyone knew anything about this and could explain as simply as possible what this means.
Was just wondering what will they be "modernizing" with the process?

Thank You

[Adrian]

It changes the format the sources are defined in the /etc/apt/sources.list and in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ files

Instead of having something like:

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deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware

it will look like:

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Types: deb
URIs: https://deb.debian.org/debian
Suites: bookworm
Components: main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
Enabled: yes
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg

It's a different format... you don't really have to worry about that too much.

[anticapitalista]

But how do I add 3rd party repos like Ubuntu ppa?

[Eadwine Rose]

I was going to respond, till I looked at the username