Bug#929248: changed its 'Suite' value from 'buster' to 'testing' ...
On Sun, 2021-08-15 at 16:08 +0200, Csillag Tamas wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Jul 07, 2019 at 06:27:02PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 07, 2019 at 05:26:27PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> > > But, it's worse than merely annoying users of unstable and
> > > testing. Two
> > > years from now, millions of boxes will have "buster" change to
> > > "oldstable",
> > > and, with cron mails currently being null-routed by default, no
> > > one will see
> > > that[1]. Thus, a significant part of users will have security
> > > updates
> > > suddenly stopped despite nothing relevant to them happening.
> > >
> > > And this particular piece deserves a high severity.
> >
> > Luckily we have about two years to deal with this (well, let's say
> > 18
> > months or so, gotta give people time to update before the new
> > stable).
>
> fwiw. what Adam predicted is exactly what happened today:
>
> # apt-get update
> Get:1 http://security.debian.org buster/updates InRelease [65.4 kB]
> Get:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster InRelease [122 kB]
> Get:3 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian buster InRelease [122 kB]
> Reading package lists... Done
> E: Repository 'http://security.debian.org buster/updates InRelease'
> changed its 'Suite' value from 'stable' to 'oldstable'
> N: This must be accepted explicitly before updates for this
> repository can be applied. See apt-secure(8) manpage for details.
> E: Repository 'http://deb.debian.org/debian buster InRelease' changed
> its 'Suite' value from 'stable' to 'oldstable'
> N: This must be accepted explicitly before updates for this
> repository can be applied. See apt-secure(8) manpage for details.
> E: Repository 'http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian buster InRelease'
> changed its 'Suite' value from 'stable' to 'oldstable'
> N: This must be accepted explicitly before updates for this
> repository can be applied. See apt-secure(8) manpage for details.
>
> 100 # cat /etc/debian_version
> 10.9
At the risk of asking a possibly silly question, why are you not
running 10.*10*, which was released in June and contained an APT
package that downgraded that particular change to a notice?
Regards,
Adam
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