Bug#931589: apt: The repository 'http://security.debian.org testing/updates Release' no longer has a Release file.
On 2019-07-08 11:13:45 +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 02:38:32AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > Package: apt
> > Version: 1.8.2
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > "apt update" gives the following error:
> >
> > E: The repository 'http://security.debian.org testing/updates Release' no longer has a Release file.
> > N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
> >
> > According to
> >
> > https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/ca2fvn/debian_testing_fails_to_upgrade_now/
> >
> > there has been a change from "testing/updates" to "testing-security".
> > Thus instead of giving an error, apt should have proposed a rewrite.
>
> APT does not have that knowledge, hence it can't do that. This is
> not a bug.
OK, but I didn't mean in APT directly. I was thinking of a rule in
the postinst script that could handle the change as a convenience
(sorry, this wasn't clear). But perhaps this is a bit too late now
(users will get the error before they can upgrade apt).
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