On 2025-09-22 12:01:02 -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Sun, Sep 21, 2025 at 11:51:17PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Do you mean the Valid-Until field? > > > > But it is said: "Client behaviour on expired Release files is > > unspecified." > > So check your client; e.g., the apt.conf man page has a discussion of > options affecting Valid-Until processing.
The aptitude documentation does not mention anything about it. Moreover, aptitude fails to show some messages from the apt library. For instance: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1032795 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1032796 -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Pascaline project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)

