Re: The repository 'http://deb.debian.org/debian buster Release' does not have a Release file.

["Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>]

On Mon, Jul 14, 2025 at 12:50:31PM +0200, Paul R. Tagliamonte wrote:
> debian/eol:* is where the stable but EOL'd images are built / live
> 
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2025, 12:39 PM Domenico Andreoli <cavok@debian.org> wrote:
> > I know that Buster is now archived and nothing should use it but its
> > container images do still exist.
> >
> > Is it somehow planned one last image update that points APT to the new
> > location in the archives?

If that works, we'd have to send a request to Google (who maintains
the official Debian images).  I can certainly help with sending that
request to Google Guest OS team if someone can confirm that it works
(preferably with a patch that we would like them to apply.)

						- Ted

P.S.  BTW, I sent a quiestion to the Debian grub team but apparently
it got hung up in moderation on the grub list, or they haven't gotten
back to me.  But if you are trying to upgrade from Debian Bookworm to
Trixie on ARM64, you'll need the following hack, or if you try
upgrading from the Debian Stable to Testing in an arm64 GCE VM, it
will fail on boot because the grub bootloader from Bookworm is
apparently not compatible with config files for Trixie.  (This works
on x86, but for some reason that I don't understand, on arm64 the file
in /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT isn't getting upgraded, although it is for x86.)


commit 77b2b2d6fe5e99dabb930137085186dde987dc74
Author: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Date:   Fri Jul 4 10:18:35 2025 -0400

    test-appliance: work around grub installation bug when upgrading to Trixie
    
    Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

diff --git a/test-appliance/gce-xfstests-bld.sh b/test-appliance/gce-xfstests-bld.sh
index b2600e80..b795ed5b 100644
--- a/test-appliance/gce-xfstests-bld.sh
+++ b/test-appliance/gce-xfstests-bld.sh
@@ -218,6 +218,11 @@ if test -n "$NEW_SUITE" -a "$OLD_SUITE" != "$NEW_SUITE" ; then
     apt-get -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confnew" --force-yes -fuy dist-upgrade
     apt-get -fy autoremove
     logger -s "Update to $NEW_SUITE complete"
+    # Hack to work around buggy grub update on arm64
+    if test -f /boot/efi/EFI/debian/grubaa64.efi -a \
+	    -f /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/grubaa64.efi ; then
+	cp /boot/efi/EFI/debian/grubaa64.efi /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/grubaa64.efi
+    fi
 else
     apt-get update
     # Temporary workaround to fix networking breakage