Subject: Re: [Devuan-bugs] bug#136: Names of 'proposed-updates' repositories are incorrect causing `apt update` to fail

From: KatolaZ <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2017 22:20:51 +0100

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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