Bug#879786: apt-secure man page needs to provide useful pointers for Release file info changes

Thanks,

"BTW, your pinning and sources.list is extreme. That's not really a sensible thing to do and can cause a lot

of trouble. "

If you can be more explicit, I'd very much appreciate the feedback.

As it is, the pinning I use is to prevent unintentional changes to nvidia drivers, linux kernel, and to block all ubuntu packages other than the 2 codecs not available in debian.

Plus block versions of some packages, like vivaldi browser, that no longer work well with the latest codecs.

It there's a better way to achieve these goals, I'd very much like to learn about it.

thanks,

--jack

From: Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>
To: js <em2jacks@yahoo.com>; 879786@bugs.debian.org
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2017 4:23 PM
Subject: Re: Bug#879786: apt-secure man page needs to provide useful pointers for Release file info changes

On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 04:05:24PM -0400, js wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 1.5
> Severity: minor
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> ==============================================================================================
> I use only 2 packages from ubuntu (which are not available in debian): chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra, oxideqt-codecs-extra.

The first one does not make much sense, Debian's chromium should already contain all codecs.

> For this I have the ubuntu repository in sources.list along with an apt_preferences file to allow
> only those 2 packages (with priority 476 < 500 for all debian).
>
> This recently gave these errors during apt-get update:
> W: Conflicting distribution: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu devel InRelease (expected devel but got bionic)
> N: Repository 'http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu devel InRelease' changed its 'Version' value from '17.10' to '18.04'
> E: Repository 'http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu devel InRelease' changed its 'Suite' value from 'artful' to 'bionic'
> E: Repository 'http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu devel InRelease' changed its 'Codename' value from 'artful' to 'bionic'
> N: This must be accepted explicitly before updates for this repository can be applied. See apt-secure(8) manpage for details.
>
> The apt-secure man page is of no help in resolving this (see bottom).

That's somewhat true. You likely want to use apt instead of apt-get, that would ask
the question interactively. apt-get is mostly for scripting.

BTW, your pinning and sources.list is extreme. That's not really a sensible thing to do and can cause a lot
of trouble. Also, well, it took me a minute to clean them out for the reply - it can only delete one line
at a time :/

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