Package: apt Version: 2.1.11 Severity: normal Since a few days I have been observing this bug during regular “apt update” / “apt upgrade” cycles, without any configuration change on my side; I am not completely sure if all this started after the last upgrade to apt 2.1.11.
apt finds (testing, unstable, experimental) InRelease files, downloads them from the mirror, checks the signatures, and then downloads Diff-index files that it regularly ignores, be it for Packages, Sources, or Contents. The result is always a complete new full download, without ever considering pdiff files and patching. After investigating a bit I tried using the following Debug options: apt -o Debug::Hashes=true \ -o Debug::pkgAcquire::Diffs=true \ -o Debug::pkgAcquire=true \ -o Debug::Acquire::gpgv=true update and this was the result: [...] Dequeuing /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/_etc_apt_mirrors_dists_unstable_main_binary-amd64_Packages.diff_Index pkgAcqDiffIndex failed: https://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.diff/by-hash/SHA256/659c48e636a76058a99bcb9b2d27eb3597ab5d72d6e763f1948541aba99d7618 with 201 URI Done SHA256-Hash: 659c48e636a76058a99bcb9b2d27eb3597ab5d72d6e763f1948541aba99d7618 Checksum-FileSize-Hash: 9518 MD5Sum-Hash: bf69442a56c7d11ea9c4d036fe1b170a MD5-Hash: bf69442a56c7d11ea9c4d036fe1b170a Last-Modified: Wed, 04 Nov 2020 14:13:12 +0000 Size: 9518 Filename: /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/_etc_apt_mirrors_dists_unstable_main_binary-amd64_Packages.diff_Index URI: https://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.diff/by-hash/SHA256/659c48e636a76058a99bcb9b2d27eb3597ab5d72d6e763f1948541aba99d7618 FailReason: WeakHashSums Falling back to normal index file acquire Fetching mirror+file:/etc/apt/mirrors/dists/unstable/main/binary-amd64/by-hash/SHA256/5059f39d518f9a34159b36adb6ab2f094f8ce937f63e6fada7041a1aea7cce76 to /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/_etc_apt_mirrors_dists_unstable_main_binary-amd64_Packages.xz Queue is: mirror+file Dequeuing /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/_etc_apt_mirrors_dists_unstable_main_binary-amd64_Packages.xz Dequeued from mirror+file Fetching https://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-amd64/by-hash/SHA256/5059f39d518f9a34159b36adb6ab2f094f8ce937f63e6fada7041a1aea7cce76 [...] This is only an excerpt, but the same happens for all other suites and components: the error is always "FailReason: WeakHashSums". I then tried other mirrors getting the same results, then I manually downloaded some of the Index files from the mirror and verified their SHA256 hash sums: they correspond to what is written in the InRelease files. This makes me think that apt is responsible for the failure in hash sums checking. -- Package-specific info: -- apt-config dump -- APT ""; APT::Architecture "amd64"; APT::Build-Essential ""; APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential"; APT::Install-Recommends "1"; APT::Install-Suggests "0"; APT::Sandbox ""; APT::Sandbox::User "_apt"; APT::Authentication ""; APT::Authentication::TrustCDROM "true"; APT::NeverAutoRemove ""; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^firmware-linux.*"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-firmware$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-image-[a-z0-9]*$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-image-[a-z0-9]*-[a-z0-9]*$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-.*-5\.8\.0-3-amd64$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-.*-5\.9\.0-1-amd64$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^kfreebsd-.*-5\.8\.0-3-amd64$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^kfreebsd-.*-5\.9\.0-1-amd64$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^gnumach-.*-5\.8\.0-3-amd64$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^gnumach-.*-5\.9\.0-1-amd64$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^.*-modules-5\.8\.0-3-amd64$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^.*-modules-5\.9\.0-1-amd64$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^.*-kernel-5\.8\.0-3-amd64$"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^.*-kernel-5\.9\.0-1-amd64$"; APT::VersionedKernelPackages ""; APT::VersionedKernelPackages:: "linux-.*"; APT::VersionedKernelPackages:: "kfreebsd-.*"; APT::VersionedKernelPackages:: "gnumach-.*"; APT::VersionedKernelPackages:: ".*-modules"; APT::VersionedKernelPackages:: ".*-kernel"; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections ""; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "metapackages"; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "contrib/metapackages"; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "non-free/metapackages"; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "restricted/metapackages"; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "universe/metapackages"; APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "multiverse/metapackages"; APT::Move-Autobit-Sections ""; APT::Move-Autobit-Sections:: "oldlibs"; APT::Move-Autobit-Sections:: "contrib/oldlibs"; APT::Move-Autobit-Sections:: "non-free/oldlibs"; APT::Move-Autobit-Sections:: "restricted/oldlibs"; APT::Move-Autobit-Sections:: "universe/oldlibs"; APT::Move-Autobit-Sections:: "multiverse/oldlibs"; APT::Keep-Downloaded-Packages "true"; APT::Update ""; APT::Update::Post-Invoke ""; APT::Update::Post-Invoke:: "[ ! -x /usr/bin/debtags ] || debtags update || true"; APT::Architectures ""; APT::Architectures:: "amd64"; APT::Compressor ""; APT::Compressor::. 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