On 9/19/26 18:55, Andy Smith wrote:
Hi,
Hello. Thank you for the reply.
bullseye is out of standard support now and in to Long Term Support, so
it is archived. bullseye-security however appears to have been deleted
instead of moved to archive.debian.org.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1147093
For a practical workaround you can add a snapshot URL to your sources as
per:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2026/09/msg00171.html
It looks like security.debian.org HTTP package services are down (?).
Not in general, just the files for bullseye-security are gone.
Thanks,
Andy
I am uncertain of the exact steps required to "add a snapshot URL to
your sources". Here is my failed attempt:
2026-09-19 21:19:59 root@laalaa ~
# cd /etc/apt
2026-09-19 21:20:21 root@laalaa /etc/apt
# ll sources.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 546 2022-05-24 15:16:19 sources.list
2026-09-19 21:20:28 root@laalaa /etc/apt
# cp sources.list sources.list-20220524-151619
2026-09-19 21:20:46 root@laalaa /etc/apt
# vi sources.list
2026-09-19 21:23:40 root@laalaa /etc/apt
# cat sources.list
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye
main contrib non-free
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye-updates
main contrib non-free
#deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security
main contrib non-free
deb http://snapshot.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security
main contrib non-free
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye
main contrib non-free
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye-updates
main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security
main contrib non-free
deb-src http://snapshot.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security
main contrib non-free
2026-09-19 21:24:18 root@laalaa /etc/apt
# apt-get update
Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye InRelease
Hit:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates InRelease
Hit:3 https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian bullseye
InRelease
Ign:4 http://snapshot.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security InRelease
Err:5 http://snapshot.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security Release
404 NOT FOUND [IP: 151.101.130.132 80]
Reading package lists... Done
E: The repository 'http://snapshot.debian.org/debian-security
bullseye-security Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is
therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user
configuration details.
Please advise.
David
