Package: apt Version: 1.8.0 Severity: normal (but ought to be release-critical, see last paragraph)
E: Repository 'http://debs.tarent.de buster InRelease' changed its 'Suite' value from 'buster' to 'testing' N: This must be accepted explicitly before updates for this repository can be applied. See apt-secure(8) manpage for details. Sure, but the apt-secure(8) manpage is 8 screen pages, and while I eventually (took me some time) found the right section, it does not document *how* one would accept this change: INFORMATION CHANGES A Release file contains beside the checksums for the files in the repository also general information about the repository like the origin, codename or version number of the release. This information is shown in various places so a repository owner should always ensure correctness. Further more user configuration like apt_preferences(5) can depend and make use of this information. Since version 1.5 the user must therefore explicitly confirm changes to signal that the user is sufficiently prepared e.g. for the new major release of the distribution shipped in the repository (as e.g. indicated by the codename). Nothing in here shows the correct way, so people will duckduckgo for answers and likely find things like “sudo chmod 777 somefile” on ask*buntu, or something… … for the record, I *believe* that adding --allow-releaseinfo-change to apt-get update is right, but this appears only in the apt-get(8) manpage, not in apt(8) which some people believe is the new tool, and especially not in apt-secure(8) where the user is directed to. As such, this is a rather severe documentation bug that I believe ought to be fixed before buster. -- Package-specific info: -- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) -- -- (/etc/apt/preferences.d/dash-mksh.pref present, but not submitted) -- -- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) -- -- (no /etc/apt/sources.list.d/* present) -- -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/lksh Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages apt depends on: ii adduser 3.118 ii debian-archive-keyring 2018.1 ii gpgv 2.2.12-1 ii libapt-pkg5.0 1.8.0 ii libc6 2.28-8 ii libgcc1 1:8.3.0-6 ii libgnutls30 3.6.6-2 ii libseccomp2 2.3.3-4 ii libstdc++6 8.3.0-6 Versions of packages apt recommends: ii ca-bundle [ca-certificates] 20181220tarent1 Versions of packages apt suggests: pn apt-doc <none> pn aptitude | synaptic | wajig <none> ii dpkg-dev 1.19.6 ii gnupg 2.2.12-1 ii gnupg1 1.4.23-1 pn powermgmt-base <none> -- no debconf information
