Devuan bug report logs - #136
Names of 'proposed-updates' repositories are incorrect causing `apt update` to fail

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.devuan.org (full text, mbox, reply):

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Package: devuan-www
Severity: critical
Tags: jessie ascii

SEVERITY is set to CRITICAL as it caused my `apt update` to fail, and it
took several day before I had the time to troubleshoot.

[https://devuan.org/os/etc/apt/sources.list] and [
https://devuan.org/os/etc/apt/sources.list.d/] both incorrectly name the
`proposed-updates` repositories as `XXX-update`.

For example, `jessie-proposed` instead of `jessie-proposed-updates`.

The actual repository names are provided below as taken from [
http://auto.mirror.devuan.org/merged/dists/]

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Index of /merged/dists/

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../
1.0/                                               18-Aug-2017 08:45
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2.0/                                               18-Aug-2017 09:35
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ascii/                                             18-Aug-2017 09:35
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ascii-backports/                                   18-Aug-2017 12:03
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ascii-proposed-updates/                            18-Aug-2017 12:03
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ascii-security/                                    18-Aug-2017 12:03
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ascii-updates/                                     18-Aug-2017 12:02
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ceres/                                             18-Aug-2017 11:39
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jessie/                                            18-Aug-2017 08:45
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jessie-backports/                                  18-Aug-2017 12:21
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jessie-proposed-updates/                           18-Aug-2017 12:02
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jessie-security/                                   18-Aug-2017 12:07
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jessie-updates/                                    18-Aug-2017 12:02
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sid/                                               18-Aug-2017 11:39
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stable/                                            18-Aug-2017 08:45
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stable-backports/                                  18-Aug-2017 12:21
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stable-proposed-updates/                           18-Aug-2017 12:02
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stable-updates/                                    18-Aug-2017 12:02
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testing/                                           18-Aug-2017 09:35
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testing-backports/                                 18-Aug-2017 12:03
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testing-proposed-updates/                          18-Aug-2017 12:03
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testing-updates/                                   18-Aug-2017 12:02
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unstable/                                          18-Aug-2017 11:39
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NOTE that the `proposed` name is more consistent with the single word names
than `proposed-updates` and is also more aesthetically pleasing :-)

As such,it would be more appropriate to file the bug on the `
auto.mirror.devuan.org` package to change the directories in [
http://auto.mirror.devuan.org/merged/dists/], but I expect that to be much
more involved than changing the documentation.

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Message #10 received at 136@bugs.devuan.org (full text, mbox, reply):

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On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 01:09:44PM -0400, Where all about bugs in Devuan packages is reported wrote:
> Package: devuan-www
> Severity: critical
> Tags: jessie ascii
> 
> SEVERITY is set to CRITICAL as it caused my `apt update` to fail, and it
> took several day before I had the time to troubleshoot.
> 
> [https://devuan.org/os/etc/apt/sources.list] and [
> https://devuan.org/os/etc/apt/sources.list.d/] both incorrectly name the
> `proposed-updates` repositories as `XXX-update`.
> 
> For example, `jessie-proposed` instead of `jessie-proposed-updates`.

"*-proposed" and "*-proposed-updates" are two different suites. In
particular, the former ones are only available under "/devuan" while
the latter ones are available under "/merged" since they are merged
with those coming from Debian.

My2Cents

KatolaZ

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Message #15 received at 136-done@bugs.devuan.org (full text, mbox, reply):

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This has been corrected in www.devuan.org. See for instance:

  https://devuan.org/os/etc/apt/sources.list.d/devuan-stable-proposed-updates.list

I am closing the bug now.

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