Package: apt Version: 2.2.4 Severity: wishlist I just had to update a machine running (now) oldstable. It was last updated before the release of bullseye, so it is not oldstabel. Running apt-get update, I get lots of: 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. … This is expected, and I read apt-secure(8) how to deal with this. However, the man page simply says: Since version 1.5 the user must therefore explicitly confirm changes to signal that the user is sufficiently prepared e.g. for the new major release of the distribution shipped in the repository (as e.g. indicated by the codename). However, there is no link how to do this, what steps are necessary. After a quick online search, I found that: apt-get update --allow-releaseinfo-change does the trick. Since this is a common use case, please describe it, e.g. in an EXAMPLE section. Possibly examples from other frontends (like apt, aptitutude, dselect, …) could be added as well. This would greatly reduce the workload for a part time administrator (and would avoid trusing "random" web sources). Before sending I found this bug (#879786) and I think it would be a really good idea handling this, the EXAMPLE section should be fairly quickly written. -- System Information: Debian Release: 11.2 APT prefers stable-security APT policy: (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.10.79 (SMP w/4 CPU threads) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to de_DE.UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages apt depends on: ii adduser 3.118 ii debian-archive-keyring 2021.1.1 ii gpgv 2.2.27-2 ii libapt-pkg6.0 2.2.4 ii libc6 2.31-13+deb11u2 ii libgcc-s1 10.2.1-6 ii libgnutls30 3.7.1-5 ii libseccomp2 2.5.1-1+deb11u1 ii libstdc++6 10.2.1-6 ii libsystemd0 247.3-6 Versions of packages apt recommends: ii ca-certificates 20210119 Versions of packages apt suggests: ii apt-doc 2.2.4 pn aptitude | synaptic | wajig <none> ii dpkg-dev 1.20.9 ii gnupg 2.2.27-2 ii gnupg2 2.2.27-2 pn powermgmt-base <none> -- no debconf information -- Dr. Helge Kreutzmann debian@helgefjell.de Dipl.-Phys. http://www.helgefjell.de/debian.php 64bit GNU powered gpg signed mail preferred Help keep free software "libre": http://www.ffii.de/
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