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

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On 2021-08-14 7:45 p.m., The Wanderer wrote:
> On 2021-08-14 at 19:41, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 07:26:44PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> 
>>> The warnings I'd be OK with; I might even be OK with the errors,
>>> except for the fact that they point not to anything with useful
>>> information but to a place which doesn't actually tell you anything
>>> helpful.
>>
>> Yeah, the DD who replied with "If you run it interactive, you get
>> asked directly" clearly had no idea....
> 
> If I remember that exchange correctly, that seems to have been a case of
> confusion about which front-end was being used. If you run 'apt'
> interactively rather than for scripting purposes, I understand that you
> *do* get asked directly; if you run 'apt-get', however, you don't.
> 
Using *apt update* instead of *apt-get update* solved my problem
(without changing my sources.list files).

>> In any case, it sounds like your machines have some unique setup
>> that's triggering the symptoms in cases where other people won't
>> experience them.  For now, I'm going to assume that the problem is
>> unique to you, unless/until someone else reports it.
> 
> I'd be glad of that, but given the number of other people reporting the
> problem in that collection of bug reports, don't expect it to be the
> case; that was part of what led me to report the solution here in the
> form of a PSA, rather than bringing it up in some other way or just not
> mentioning it at all.
> 
>> Also, the fact that people apparently can't manage to find the
>> NewInBuster page that describes the symptom and its workaround (not
>> even with Google?) is sad.
> 
> I didn't even look this time, since I'd had to look so hard last time
> and found nothing anyway. I just ran 'reportbug apt', filtered the list
> of bugs for mention of 'secure', and looked at the first bug report -
> out of, IIRC, three or four - whose title seemed relevant.
> 

-- 
Polyna-Maude R.-Summerside
-Be smart, Be wise, Support opensource development

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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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