[Aptitude-devel] Bug#915246: aptitude: doesn't cope with "Repository '…' changed its 'Origin' value from 'A' to 'B'. This must be accepted explicitly before updates for this repository can be applied. […] Do you want to accept these changes and continue updating from this repository?" questions from apt.

[Axel Beckert]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.8.11-6
Severity: normal

I just got this dialog from the aptitude TUI after updating package list
with "aptitude -u":

 ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
 │E: Failed to download some files                                                            ▒│
 │W: Failed to fetch https://deb.opera.com/opera/dists/stable/InRelease:                      ▒│
 │W: Failed to fetch https://deb.opera.com/opera-beta/dists/stable/InRelease:                 ▒│
 │W: Failed to fetch https://deb.opera.com/opera-snapshot/dists/stable/InRelease:             ▒│
 │E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.   ▒│
 │                                           [ Ok ]                                            │
 └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

With "aptitude update", it looks like this, showing more details:

Fetched 269 kB in 15s (18.2 kB/s)
E: Repository 'https://deb.opera.com/opera stable InRelease' changed its 'Origin' value from 'Opera Software ASA' to 'Opera Software AS'
E: Repository 'https://deb.opera.com/opera-beta stable InRelease' changed its 'Origin' value from 'Opera Software ASA' to 'Opera Software AS'
E: Repository 'https://deb.opera.com/opera-snapshot stable InRelease' changed its 'Origin' value from 'Opera Software ASA' to 'Opera Software AS'
E: Failed to download some files
W: Failed to fetch https://deb.opera.com/opera/dists/stable/InRelease:
W: Failed to fetch https://deb.opera.com/opera-beta/dists/stable/InRelease:
W: Failed to fetch https://deb.opera.com/opera-snapshot/dists/stable/InRelease:
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

But with "apt update" I get this dialog (and afterwards two more)
instead of just failing package list updates:

E: Repository 'https://deb.opera.com/opera stable InRelease' changed its 'Origin' value from 'Opera Software ASA' to 'Opera Software AS'
N: This must be accepted explicitly before updates for this repository can be applied. See apt-secure(8) manpage for details.
Do you want to accept these changes and continue updating from this repository? [y/N]

Seems as if currently aptitude doesn't have the capability to make a
dialog out of this.

Additionally, it shows less of the error message(s) in TUI mode than in
CLI mode despite it IMHO shou;dn't.

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (110, 'experimental'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'buildd-experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  aptitude-common           0.8.11-6
ii  libapt-pkg5.0             1.8.0~alpha2
ii  libboost-iostreams1.67.0  1.67.0-11
ii  libboost-system1.67.0     1.67.0-11
ii  libc6                     2.27-8
ii  libcwidget3v5             0.5.17-11
ii  libgcc1                   1:8.2.0-10
ii  libncursesw6              6.1+20181013-1
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0v5         2.10.1-1
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.25.3-2
ii  libstdc++6                8.2.0-10
ii  libtinfo6                 6.1+20181013-1
ii  libxapian30               1.4.9-1

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl  1.2.0-13
ii  sensible-utils                 0.0.12

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
ii  apt-xapian-index                0.49
ii  aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc]  0.8.11-6
ii  debtags                         2.1.5
ii  tasksel                         3.48

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