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
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