On 2019-07-08 11:13:45 +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 02:38:32AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Package: apt > > Version: 1.8.2 > > Severity: normal > > > > "apt update" gives the following error: > > > > E: The repository 'http://security.debian.org testing/updates Release' no > > longer has a Release file. > > N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore > > disabled by default. > > > > According to > > > > https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/ca2fvn/debian_testing_fails_to_upgrade_now/ > > > > there has been a change from "testing/updates" to "testing-security". > > Thus instead of giving an error, apt should have proposed a rewrite. > > APT does not have that knowledge, hence it can't do that. This is > not a bug.
OK, but I didn't mean in APT directly. I was thinking of a rule in the postinst script that could handle the change as a convenience (sorry, this wasn't clear). But perhaps this is a bit too late now (users will get the error before they can upgrade apt). -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
