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Re: PSA: 'apt-get update' new-Debian-release error fix

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On 2021-08-14 at 19:06, Greg Wooledge wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 06:26:07PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> 
>> I had enough trouble with this at the last Debian release,
> 
> ... but not this time, right?

Yes, this time; in fact...

>> For anyone who uses 'apt-get update' - and, I suspect, any other tool
>> than 'apt' itself - to update the list of available packages from the
>> new release, you're at least moderately likely to see the update attempt
>> fail with error messages like the following:
>> 
>> > E: Repository 'http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stable InRelease' changed its 'Codename' value from 'buster' to 'bullseye'
> 
> You copied this from the NewInBuster wiki most likely.

...nope, I copied it from a terminal on my computer, where it had just
been output on my initial 'apt-get update' attempt.

> That's where I put it, when I ran into this issue two years ago, and
> documented it there.  It's even the same mirror that I use (which is
> no longer the default, hence it standing out).
> 
> The issue did not happen this time around.  Instead of getting an
> "E:" line (error), you only get a bunch of N: (warning) lines.
> 
> You're trying to solve a problem that doesn't actually exist any
> more.

I would love for that to have been the case, but my experience does not
reflect it being so.

Maybe somehow I'm running an older apt-get version than what has the
fix(es)? But as far as I know that's shipped in the 'apt' package, and I
have that at version 2.2.4, which is what's currently in both stable and
testing (unsurprising given that they should currently be nearly identical).

-- 
   The Wanderer

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.         -- George Bernard Shaw

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PSA: 'apt-get update' new-Debian-release error fix The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2021-08-15 00:30 +0200
  Re: PSA: 'apt-get update' new-Debian-release error fix Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-08-15 01:10 +0200
    Re: PSA: 'apt-get update' new-Debian-release error fix The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2021-08-15 01:20 +0200
      Re: PSA: 'apt-get update' new-Debian-release error fix Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-08-15 01:30 +0200
        Re: PSA: 'apt-get update' new-Debian-release error fix Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2021-08-15 02:00 +0200
          Re: PSA: 'apt-get update' new-Debian-release error fix The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2021-08-15 02:10 +0200
            Re: PSA: 'apt-get update' new-Debian-release error fix Weaver <weaver@riseup.net> - 2021-08-15 02:20 +0200
            Re: PSA: 'apt-get update' new-Debian-release error fix Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2021-08-15 08:30 +0200
            Re: PSA: 'apt-get update' new-Debian-release error fix Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-08-15 15:50 +0200
            Re: PSA: 'apt-get update' new-Debian-release error fix ellanios82 <ellanios82@gmail.com> - 2021-08-15 15:50 +0200
      Re: PSA: 'apt-get update' new-Debian-release error fix Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2021-08-16 22:50 +0200
    Re: PSA: 'apt-get update' new-Debian-release error fix Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-08-15 03:00 +0200
      Re: PSA: 'apt-get update' new-Debian-release error fix Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-08-15 03:10 +0200
        Re: PSA: 'apt-get update' new-Debian-release error fix Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-08-15 03:40 +0200
        Re: PSA: 'apt-get update' new-Debian-release error fix ellanios82 <ellanios82@gmail.com> - 2021-08-15 13:20 +0200
  Re: PSA: 'apt-get update' new-Debian-release error fix Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-08-15 01:20 +0200
    Re: PSA: 'apt-get update' new-Debian-release error fix The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2021-08-15 01:30 +0200
      Re: PSA: 'apt-get update' new-Debian-release error fix Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-08-15 01:50 +0200
        Re: PSA: 'apt-get update' new-Debian-release error fix The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2021-08-15 01:50 +0200
          Re: PSA: 'apt-get update' new-Debian-release error fix Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-08-15 03:00 +0200
  Re: PSA: 'apt-get update' new-Debian-release error fix songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-08-15 16:50 +0200

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