Bug#738909: Acknowledgement ([apt] Package System Broken, libc6 etc)
On Sunday, 23 February, 2014 17:16:19 David Kalnischkies wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 10:15:30AM +0200, David Baron wrote:
> > If., due to whatever problem, at repo site or local internet or anywhere
> > in
> > between, one cannot access the site for desired distro, i.e. "unstable,"
> > but can access "experimental," apt will take packages from there.
>
> That could be, I will try to reproduce this later if I find the time.
> Could you in the meantime confirm that APT warned you in your
> (dist-)upgrade about unauthentificated packages as it does in the
> cron-apt output you have provided?
> It would explain a lot at least…
> (and reiterate that it is a bad idea to ignore security warnings).
Yes, it did. Bad idea to ignore but, not noticing so many experimental
packages, and seeing that they were indeed Debian, well ... partly my fault
anyway.
>
>
> Regarding the rest: You should have reported it the first time it
> happened (easy to say now, isn't it?). I am also repeating the general
> idea about downgrades which you have confirmed here: If you try to solve
> a problem with downgrades, you have (at least) two problems after it…
Doing it as a downgrade is very problematic.
Downloading the installing the desired packages was relatively painless, side-
effect free, if tedious. A couple more and my system is 100% OK. Few more
"experimentals" still linger but are not meaningful.
>
> Note also that as you can see here bug reports are not ideal to get
> input on fixing your system. The support channels like the debian-user
> mailinglists or IRC are way better in this regard.
Yup. That was more panic situation.
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