[Aptitude-devel] Bug#1033357: Bug#1033357: aptitude: TUI does not display all error messages

[Axel Beckert]

Control: severity -1 important
Control: tag -1 confirmed

Hi Vincent,

Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> I've got the following error message from the TUI (with 'u' to update):
> 
> ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
> │E: Failed to download some files                                             ▒│
> │W: Failed to fetch                                                           ▒│
> │   https://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/experimental/InRelease:               ▒│
> │E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones  ▒│
> │   used instead.                                                             ▒│
> │                                    [ Ok ]                                    │
> └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
> 
> However, "aptitude update" (like "apt update") is more informative:
> 
> [...]
> Get: 31 https://ftp.debian.org/debian experimental InRelease [101 kB]
> E: Repository 'https://ftp.debian.org/debian experimental InRelease' changed its 'Codename' value from 'experimental' to 'rc-buggy'
> E: Failed to download some files
> W: Failed to fetch https://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/experimental/InRelease: 
> E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

Ran into this today, too. I think we had this already when bullseye
switched from testing to stable or so and I think there's a bug report
for this, too, already. Will search later for that one.

Interestingly compared to your last bug repoirt this time I think the
severity is higher, as this is an error which doesn't let you to
properly continue without proper explanation.

		Regards, Axel
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