Bug#1041708: apt: Manpages have wrong advice on APT::Default-Release preventing security updates

2023-08-21 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Sat, Aug 19, 2023 at 06:14:54PM +0200, Daniel Gröber wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Aug 19, 2023 at 04:53:09PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > The problem is that regex is NOT supported at the moment. > > > > Urgh, and you did not complain that the release notes actually encourage > > users to

Bug#1041708: apt: Manpages have wrong advice on APT::Default-Release preventing security updates

2023-08-19 Thread Daniel Gröber
Hi, On Sat, Aug 19, 2023 at 04:53:09PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > The problem is that regex is NOT supported at the moment. > > Urgh, and you did not complain that the release notes actually encourage > users to do that? Yeah, that seems less than ideal. Brings me back to thinking we

Bug#1041708: apt: Manpages have wrong advice on APT::Default-Release preventing security updates

2023-08-19 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, Le samedi 19 août 2023, David Kalnischkies a écrit : > > Agreed. It would be nice to document that we can use regex here and > > that it actually makes sense to do so as most Debian release are actually > > composed of multiple repositories. > > The problem is that regex is NOT supported at

Bug#1041708: apt: Manpages have wrong advice on APT::Default-Release preventing security updates

2023-08-19 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 11:24:22AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > As you may have noticed, the 'stable' doesn't include 'stable-updates' > > > either and that isn't new – and also part of the reason for this funny > > > regex. I was surprised then I discovered that entry the first time in > >

Bug#1041708: apt: Manpages have wrong advice on APT::Default-Release preventing security updates

2023-08-18 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello, Le samedi 22 juillet 2023, Daniel Gröber a écrit : > > (eventually an update/security fix will be part of stable via a point > > release, so such a setting considerably delays the updates, but doesn't > > prevent them as such. While I wouldn't recommended it, there might be > > people

Bug#1041708: apt: Manpages have wrong advice on APT::Default-Release preventing security updates

2023-07-22 Thread Daniel Gröber
Package: apt Version: 2.6.1 Severity: important Tags: security X-Debbugs-Cc: d...@darkboxed.org, Debian Security Team Dear Maintainer, apt's manpages contain references to APT::Default-Release which give wrong advice on how to set it in light of the changes to the debian-security repo Codename