Re: PSA: 'apt-get update' new-Debian-release error fix
On 15-08-2021 10:02, The Wanderer wrote:
> On 2021-08-14 at 19:49, Brad Rogers wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 14 Aug 2021 19:28:32 -0400 Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Greg,
>>
>>> It will be interesting to see if anyone else reports the same
>>> problem you're seeing.
>>
>> I experienced it here.
>>
>> I usually use Synaptic to perform updates. Synaptic put up the
>> warning message about the codename change, but I could find no way to
>> explicitly accept the changes in Synaptic. As The Wanderer
>> suggested, I ran 'apt update' from a command line and followed the
>> prompts.
>>
>> I will add that my sources lists refer only to 'testing', and do not
>> use version codenames at all.
>
> As do I. It may be possible that this is what makes the difference.
I always use distribution and never versioning, but have never
experienced this problem.
Cheers!
Harry
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