Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.11-7 Severity: normal Hello!
As you know, Debian buster has been released yesterday and the current Debian testing has just been renamed from 'buster' to 'bullseye'. Good, but... today I tried to update the repository lists and upgrade my Debian testing boxes with aptitude: # cat /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://deb.debian.org/debian testing main deb http://deb.debian.org/debian unstable main deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-security testing-security main # aptitude update && aptitude --purge-unused safe-upgrade Get: 1 http://deb.debian.org/debian testing InRelease [87.0 kB] Hit http://deb.debian.org/debian unstable InRelease Get: 2 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security testing-security InRelease [26.1 kB] Fetched 26.1 kB in 0s (57.2 kB/s) E: Repository 'http://deb.debian.org/debian testing InRelease' changed its 'Codename' value from 'buster' to 'bullseye' E: Failed to download some files W: Failed to fetch http://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/InRelease: E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead. OK, it's telling me that the codename has changed, so I have to be sure I want to continue to use that repository. This is useful in cases where the user has configured something like "deb http://deb.debian.org/debian stable main" and does not want to be caught unprepared by a new stable release. But for Debian testing, I really want to continue tracking testing and the codename change is not an actual discontinuity. I had to do the following: # apt update Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian testing InRelease [87.0 kB] Hit:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian unstable InRelease E: Repository 'http://deb.debian.org/debian testing InRelease' changed its 'Codename' value from 'buster' to 'bullseye' N: This must be accepted explicitly before updates for this repository can be applied. See apt-secure(8) manpage for details. Do you want to accept these changes and continue updating from this repository? [y/N] y Hit:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security testing-security InRelease Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done All packages are up to date. and then resume my usual upgrading procedure: # aptitude update && aptitude --purge-unused safe-upgrade Hit http://deb.debian.org/debian testing InRelease Hit http://deb.debian.org/debian unstable InRelease Hit http://deb.debian.org/debian-security testing-security InRelease No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used. I think this is a bug in aptitude: it should interactively ask the user to explicitly confirm the will to go on with the new codename, like apt does, and also provide a command line option to do so ("--allow-releaseinfo-change", see the apt-get(8) man page). Please implement this feature. Thanks for your time and dedication! Bye. -- Package-specific info: Terminal: xterm $DISPLAY is set. which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude aptitude version information: aptitude 0.8.11 Compiler: g++ 8.2.0 Compiled against: apt version 5.0.2 NCurses version 6.1 libsigc++ version: 2.10.1 Gtk+ support disabled. Qt support disabled. Current library versions: NCurses version: ncurses 6.1.20181013 cwidget version: 0.5.17 Apt version: 5.0.2 aptitude linkage: linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffcea27c000) libapt-pkg.so.5.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.0 (0x00007f3eb711a000) libncursesw.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.6 (0x00007f3eb70e0000) libtinfo.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.6 (0x00007f3eb70b2000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f3eb70a9000) libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007f3eb6fa3000) libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007f3eb6e81000) libboost_iostreams.so.1.67.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.67.0 (0x00007f3eb6e61000) libboost_system.so.1.67.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_system.so.1.67.0 (0x00007f3eb6e5a000) libxapian.so.30 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxapian.so.30 (0x00007f3eb6c2e000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f3eb6c0d000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f3eb6a89000) libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f3eb6906000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f3eb68ea000) libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f3eb6729000) libresolv.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libresolv.so.2 (0x00007f3eb670f000) libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f3eb64f1000) libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f3eb64de000) liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007f3eb64b6000) liblz4.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1 (0x00007f3eb6495000) libzstd.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libzstd.so.1 (0x00007f3eb63f5000) libudev.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1 (0x00007f3eb63cf000) libsystemd.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsystemd.so.0 (0x00007f3eb632e000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f3eb7750000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f3eb6329000) librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007f3eb631d000) libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f3eb6314000) libgcrypt.so.20 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcrypt.so.20 (0x00007f3eb61f6000) libgpg-error.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgpg-error.so.0 (0x00007f3eb61d3000) -- System Information: Debian Release: 10.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii aptitude-common 0.8.11-7 ii libapt-pkg5.0 1.8.2 ii libboost-iostreams1.67.0 1.67.0-13 ii libboost-system1.67.0 1.67.0-13 ii libc6 2.28-10 ii libcwidget3v5 0.5.17-11 ii libgcc1 1:8.3.0-6 ii libncursesw6 6.1+20181013-2 ii libsigc++-2.0-0v5 2.10.1-2 ii libsqlite3-0 3.27.2-3 ii libstdc++6 8.3.0-6 ii libtinfo6 6.1+20181013-2 ii libxapian30 1.4.11-1 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-13 ii sensible-utils 0.0.12 Versions of packages aptitude suggests: pn apt-xapian-index <none> pn aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-doc <none> pn debtags <none> ii tasksel 3.53 -- no debconf information
