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changed its 'Codename' value from 'experimental' to 'rc-buggy'

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changed its 'Codename' value from 'experimental' to 'rc-buggy'

#1 Post by craigevil »

Anyone seen this error when running apt update?
Error: Repository 'https://deb.debian.org/debian experimental InRelease' changed its 'Codename' value from 'experimental' to 'rc-buggy'
Does that mean that Debian changed the name of Experimental?

Went ahead and changed the name and apt update runs with no errors.

Does anyone have a link about it getting changed?

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Re: changed its 'Codename' value from 'experimental' to 'rc-buggy'

#2 Post by craigevil »

Only thing I can find is this:
experimental - Not really a release (RC-Buggy), but a repository where packages are tested (experimented) if they are not suited for unstable
From: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases

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Re: changed its 'Codename' value from 'experimental' to 'rc-buggy'

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Re: changed its 'Codename' value from 'experimental' to 'rc-buggy'

#4 Post by craigevil »

It worked using "experimental" until today, changed it to rc-buggy and it works again. Strange.

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Re: changed its 'Codename' value from 'experimental' to 'rc-buggy'

#5 Post by stevepusser »

RC Buggy may be worse than unstable:

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Re: changed its 'Codename' value from 'experimental' to 'rc-buggy'

#6 Post by sunrat »

stevepusser wrote: 2023-03-24 21:53 RC Buggy may be worse than unstable:

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I have an RC buggy very similar to the one that guy is holding, and did exactly that to some poor kid standing beside the track when I ran off course. No damage thankfully. :shock: :lol:
Those things go fast; clocked mine at just under 70 km/h.
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Re: changed its 'Codename' value from 'experimental' to 'rc-buggy'

#7 Post by milomak »

this came about for me a few days ago. i have always known experimental just as that. so i was initially surprised

but then thought well if unstable is sid, it stands to reason that experimental also has a name.

but i only accepted the changes after i found this info out. and then i have just remembered on the old laptop i had actually downgraded the experimental priority even lower. and now i think about it, i think i had it on the old laptop for nvidia drivers which this one is not nvidia.
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Re: changed its 'Codename' value from 'experimental' to 'rc-buggy'

#8 Post by BBQdave »

stevepusser wrote: 2023-03-24 21:53 RC Buggy may be worse than unstable:

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Re: changed its 'Codename' value from 'experimental' to 'rc-buggy'

#9 Post by shirish »

Everyone needs to see https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo ... ug=1019691. Just got the above today and wanted to find more about it hence saw that bug report. Still reading through it too. It probably is documented somewhere better than just in the BTS..
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Re: changed its 'Codename' value from 'experimental' to 'rc-buggy'

#10 Post by milomak »

i'm not what the issue is you are raising?

my sources.list continued to reference experimental to the repos i was pointing to and i can update against experimental if i want

# apt -s -t experimental install nvidia-driver

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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libnvidia-egl-wayland1 libvidstab1.1 nvidia-settings
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
  firmware-nvidia-gsp libegl-nvidia0 libegl-nvidia0:i386 libgl1-nvidia-glvnd-glx libgl1-nvidia-glvnd-glx:i386 libgles-nvidia1 libgles-nvidia1:i386 libgles-nvidia2 libgles-nvidia2:i386 libglx-nvidia0
  libglx-nvidia0:i386 libnvidia-allocator1 libnvidia-allocator1:i386 libnvidia-cfg1 libnvidia-eglcore libnvidia-eglcore:i386 libnvidia-glcore libnvidia-glcore:i386 libnvidia-glvkspirv libnvidia-glvkspirv:i386
  libnvidia-ml1 libnvidia-rtcore nvidia-alternative nvidia-detect nvidia-driver-bin nvidia-driver-libs nvidia-driver-libs:i386 nvidia-egl-common nvidia-egl-icd nvidia-egl-icd:i386 nvidia-kernel-dkms
  nvidia-kernel-support nvidia-legacy-check nvidia-vdpau-driver nvidia-vulkan-common nvidia-vulkan-icd nvidia-vulkan-icd:i386 xserver-xorg-video-nvidia
Suggested packages:
  vulkan-utils vulkan-utils:i386
Recommended packages:
  nvidia-settings libnvidia-encode1 libnvidia-encode1:i386
The following packages will be upgraded:
  firmware-nvidia-gsp libegl-nvidia0 libegl-nvidia0:i386 libgl1-nvidia-glvnd-glx libgl1-nvidia-glvnd-glx:i386 libgles-nvidia1 libgles-nvidia1:i386 libgles-nvidia2 libgles-nvidia2:i386 libglx-nvidia0
  libglx-nvidia0:i386 libnvidia-allocator1 libnvidia-allocator1:i386 libnvidia-cfg1 libnvidia-eglcore libnvidia-eglcore:i386 libnvidia-glcore libnvidia-glcore:i386 libnvidia-glvkspirv libnvidia-glvkspirv:i386
  libnvidia-ml1 libnvidia-rtcore nvidia-alternative nvidia-detect nvidia-driver nvidia-driver-bin nvidia-driver-libs nvidia-driver-libs:i386 nvidia-egl-common nvidia-egl-icd nvidia-egl-icd:i386
  nvidia-kernel-dkms nvidia-kernel-support nvidia-legacy-check nvidia-vdpau-driver nvidia-vulkan-common nvidia-vulkan-icd nvidia-vulkan-icd:i386 xserver-xorg-video-nvidia
39 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 722 not upgraded.
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Inst libnvidia-ml1 [525.89.02-2] (530.41.03-1 Debian:experimental [amd64]) []
Inst nvidia-driver-bin [525.89.02-2] (530.41.03-1 Debian:experimental [amd64]) []
Inst nvidia-vdpau-driver [525.89.02-2] (530.41.03-1 Debian:experimental [amd64]) []
Inst nvidia-kernel-dkms [525.89.02-2] (530.41.03-1 Debian:experimental [amd64]) []
Inst firmware-nvidia-gsp [525.89.02-2] (530.41.03-1 Debian:experimental [amd64]) []
Inst nvidia-kernel-support [525.89.02-2] (530.41.03-1 Debian:experimental [amd64]) []
Inst libnvidia-cfg1 [525.89.02-2] (530.41.03-1 Debian:experimental [amd64]) []
Inst nvidia-alternative [525.89.02-2] (530.41.03-1 Debian:experimental [amd64])
Inst nvidia-legacy-check [525.89.02-2] (530.41.03-1 Debian:experimental [amd64])
Inst libnvidia-allocator1:i386 [525.89.02-2] (530.41.03-1 Debian:experimental [i386]) [libnvidia-allocator1:amd64 on libnvidia-allocator1:i386] [libnvidia-allocator1:i386 on libnvidia-allocator1:amd64] [libnvidia-allocator1:amd64 ]
Inst libnvidia-allocator1 [525.89.02-2] (530.41.03-1 Debian:experimental [amd64])
Inst libnvidia-rtcore [525.89.02-2] (530.41.03-1 Debian:experimental [amd64])
Inst nvidia-detect [525.89.02-2] (530.41.03-1 Debian:experimental [amd64])
Conf nvidia-vulkan-common (530.41.03-1 Debian:experimental [amd64])
Conf nvidia-vulkan-icd:i386 (530.41.03-1 Debian:experimental [i386])
Conf nvidia-vulkan-icd (530.41.03-1 Debian:experimental [amd64])
Conf libnvidia-glvkspirv (530.41.03-1 Debian:experimental [amd64])
Conf libnvidia-glvkspirv:i386 (530.41.03-1 Debian:experimental [i386])
Conf nvidia-egl-common (530.41.03-1 Debian:experimental [amd64])
Conf nvidia-driver (530.41.03-1 Debian:experimental [amd64])
Conf nvidia-driver-libs (530.41.03-1 Debian:experimental [amd64])
Conf nvidia-driver-libs:i386 (530.41.03-1 Debian:experimental [i386])
Conf nvidia-egl-icd:i386 (530.41.03-1 Debian:experimental [i386])
Conf nvidia-egl-icd (530.41.03-1 Debian:experimental [amd64])
Conf libegl-nvidia0 (530.41.03-1 Debian:experimental [amd64])
Conf libegl-nvidia0:i386 (530.41.03-1 Debian:experimental [i386])
Conf libgles-nvidia2 (530.41.03-1 Debian:experimental [amd64])
Conf libgles-nvidia2:i386 (530.41.03-1 Debian:experimental [i386])
Conf libgles-nvidia1 (530.41.03-1 Debian:experimental [amd64])
Conf libgles-nvidia1:i386 (530.41.03-1 Debian:experimental [i386])
Conf libgl1-nvidia-glvnd-glx:i386 (530.41.03-1 Debian:experimental [i386])
Conf libgl1-nvidia-glvnd-glx (530.41.03-1 Debian:experimental [amd64])
Conf libglx-nvidia0 (530.41.03-1 Debian:experimental [amd64])
Conf libglx-nvidia0:i386 (530.41.03-1 Debian:experimental [i386])
Conf libnvidia-eglcore:i386 (530.41.03-1 Debian:experimental [i386])
Conf libnvidia-eglcore (530.41.03-1 Debian:experimental [amd64])
Conf libnvidia-glcore:i386 (530.41.03-1 Debian:experimental [i386])
Conf libnvidia-glcore (530.41.03-1 Debian:experimental [amd64])
Conf xserver-xorg-video-nvidia (530.41.03-1 Debian:experimental [amd64])
Conf libnvidia-ml1 (530.41.03-1 Debian:experimental [amd64])
Conf nvidia-driver-bin (530.41.03-1 Debian:experimental [amd64])
Conf nvidia-vdpau-driver (530.41.03-1 Debian:experimental [amd64])
Conf nvidia-kernel-dkms (530.41.03-1 Debian:experimental [amd64])
Conf firmware-nvidia-gsp (530.41.03-1 Debian:experimental [amd64])
Conf nvidia-kernel-support (530.41.03-1 Debian:experimental [amd64])
Conf libnvidia-cfg1 (530.41.03-1 Debian:experimental [amd64])
Conf nvidia-alternative (530.41.03-1 Debian:experimental [amd64])
Conf nvidia-legacy-check (530.41.03-1 Debian:experimental [amd64])
Conf libnvidia-allocator1:i386 (530.41.03-1 Debian:experimental [i386])
Conf libnvidia-allocator1 (530.41.03-1 Debian:experimental [amd64])
Conf libnvidia-rtcore (530.41.03-1 Debian:experimental [amd64])
Conf nvidia-detect (530.41.03-1 Debian:experimental [amd64])
it seems to me that acceptig the codename change has no impact on /etc/apt/sources.list on my system and it continues to pull from experimental
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Re: changed its 'Codename' value from 'experimental' to 'rc-buggy'

#11 Post by tomoverlund »

I just ran across this today. You can fix this without changing sources.list by adding "--allow-releaseinfo-change" to apt-get:

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apt-get update --allow-releaseinfo-change
See this rant from a couple of years ago for more details on the general issue: http://pigeonsnest.co.uk/stuff/apt-get- ... shite.html

Would be nice if the error message told you that. I'll file an enhancement request if I get around to it.

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