UPDATE to my 10/20/22 post.
After a rebuild of my system a month after this post, it turns out (for
me at least and may not be related), 2 things appeared to have happened.
1. It appears that almost all the apps to be installed using apt-clone
restore, I am seeing broken packages shortly after starting the process.
The "broken" apps appear to be better than 90% of all apps installed. Of
course, the process never finishes correctly and the system runs fine
both before and after since nothing was applied .
2. It appears that apt-clone overwrites the files that are patched - I
wonder if this could have produced the issue above.
I have tippled checked that patches are applied properly and simply
running apt-clone without parms runs properly without issues (then
again, it's not doing anything).
I realize that trying an apt-clone after 30 days that packages may be
out of sync from the archived file to what would be pulled down, but
before this bug appeared, I don't recall having this issue going back in
time even with more than 30 days since the last apt-clone restore.
To date, I have not really found an efficient way to restore from
something so I continue to keep an eye on this bug and have shelved
Debian for now.
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Keep well,
Chris
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