On 8/14/21, The Wanderer <wande...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > 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).
Stuff's not totally caught up or something. I've encountered the following a couple of times. The latest was while playing along with a recent Debian-User Docker thread: https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=docker That packages page says buster is stable and bullseye is still testing. That's possibly (likely?) not the only place still showing similar, too. Yesterday I debootstrap'ed in anticipation of new and not so stable. Only a couple font packages failed as no longer available, and the rest were already hoarded locally here. My previous experience had been that a LOT of packages are not available because Developers haven't brought them up to speed. Examples there would be something like GIMP and Inkscape. This morning there were a lot of upgrades and incidental deletions that were more as expected. Things are slowly rolling along and catching up to speed, I guess. :) OR not.. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *
