I installed trixie from scratch with the 13.2 netinst just over two weeks ago, my second such installation. To save bandwidth, I copied the trixie packages saved from my first installation into /var/cache/apt/archives: it's now a 6.7GB .deb collection. As this laptop runs pretty much 24/7, I decided to install apt-cacher-ng on it, rather than my usual workaday desktop.
Following the acng guide, I attempted to import my packages, and got the same symptoms as reported here at #5. The opening words, "Since the update to 3.7.5-1," gave me hope, though; so I carried out the following operations: 1. Re-moved the package collection out of /v/c/acng/_import/ back into a safer location, 2. Removed apt-cacher-ng and its three dependencies that were recently installed (/only/ purging the dependencies), but see step 8, 3. Manually downloaded bookworm's version of apt-cacher-ng, 4: Attempted to install it, which required libc-ares2 in addition as a dependency, 5. Manually downloaded (trixie's) libc-ares2, and installed apt-cacher-ng and libc-ares2 together, 6. Moved the package collection back into /v/c/acng/_import/, 7. Import now worked. I now have 5.2GB under debrep, and 1.7GB left behind in _import, and the latter seems reasonable with there being 8 old chromiums, 4 old firefoxes, one old libreoffice suite and a linux-image among the detritus. So, 8. apt-get upgrade which upgraded apt-cacher-ng. I left libc-ares2 installed though it's currently redundant. (Removing the three dependencies at step 2 was unnecessary. Had this procedure not worked, I was going to remove acng for the time being, and use a USB stick instead.) As this bug has been open for 17 months, I hope this post might be of use to somebody. Cheers, David.
