On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 03:07:54PM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > Hey guys, > > APT will shortly start validating that the Date field in a release > file is not (too far) in the future. This might have implications > for installing on devices with an inaccurate clock, as they might > now fail. > > There are two primary workarounds: > > * Set Acquire::Check-Date to false > * Set check-date sources.list option to false > > It's a bit unclear if this only affects validation of the Date field, > or also turns off Validation of the Valid-Until field (as a generic "turn > off all date-related checks" option). Opinions on that?
I think I forgot to follow up, but we enabled this feature in beta1 on Feb 26, which entered testing on Mar 03. -- debian developer - deb.li/jak | jak-linux.org - free software dev ubuntu core developer i speak de, en
