Fix APT comment syntax for older APT versions (instead of just not configuring them) #59
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It turns out that support for
apt.conf
comments of the style# xxx
was added in 0.7.22 (https://salsa.debian.org/apt-team/apt/commit/81e9789b12374073e848c73c79e235f82c14df44), and that I was incorrect in simply assuming that these configuration options were making this script blow up on really old APT versions!This adds (and uses) a script that will rewrite
# ...
to// ...
for APT versions that are old enough to need it. I've tested it successfully as far back as Debian Potato!