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#199
mirrors: InRelease files missing Origin: field
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Report forwarded to devuan-bugs@lists.dyne.org, Olaf Meeuwissen <paddy-hack@member.fsf.org>, owner@bugs.devuan.org:
bug#199; Package mirrors.
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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.devuan.org (full text, mbox, reply):
Package: mirrors
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
The *_InRelease files for pkgmaster.devuan.org and deb.devuan.org (and
probably also all *.deb.devuan.org mirrors) do not include an Origin:
field. The *_InRelease files on packages.devuan.org do. I haven't
checked amprolla.devuan.org or *.mirrors.devuan.org.
This came to light debugging odd behaviour of `lsb_release -c` (as you
can see illustrated below in the System Information where the codename
is `n/a`) using deb.devuan.org (see
https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20180420.115057.d298af7b.en.html).
Whether `lsb_release` should consult these files is a separate issue but
when I switch to packages.devuan.org and run `apt-get update` the
codename all of a sudden displays as `ascii`, as expected.
There may be other packages that rely on the Origin: information. One
that I am aware of is unattended-upgrades. Its configuration lets the
user select which parts of their APT sources should be upgraded
unattended. One of the specifications it supports is based on the
Origin: field. Absence of the field in InRelease files will probably
break that.
-- System Information:
Distributor ID: Devuan
Description: Devuan GNU/Linux testing/unstable
Release: testing/unstable
Codename: n/a
Architecture: x86_64
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
Hope this helps,
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Message #10 received at 199-done@bugs.devuan.org (full text, mbox, reply):
This has been addressed.
Using deb.devuan.org in my sources.list, lsb_release -sc returns ascii.
See also:
https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20180601.044107.046ceb48.en.html
https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20180531.143306.c496c834.en.html
Hope this helps,
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