Hi Francesco, Michael and Sven,
Francesco Poli (wintermute) wrote:
> 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:
[…]
> 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.
Indeed. This also seems to have an impact where buster changed from
"testing" to "stable", see https://bugs.debian.org/931543.
That's actually prompted by a change in libapt (as Sven already
pointed out in #931543) which aptitude indeed hasn't been updated a
for.
I though must admit that we actually were aware of this issue as I ran
into it with a third-party repo a few months ago, see
https://bugs.debian.org/915246. But admittedly I totally
underestimated its severity and especially also its impact at release
time as I didn't think of that exactly the same will happen when
Debian shifts all suite names at release time. Sorry for that.
I hope that Manuel (CCc'ed) can provide a fix which we then can also
apply to aptitude in Buster in the first minor update which is
expected in about a month.
The official workaround is to use "apt update" once inbetween, answer
its questions (with "y" :-) and then continue to use aptitude.
Regards, Axel
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