Bug#1038747: gnome-software may overwrite debian-security with invalid entry
Simon McVittie
smcv at debian.org
Tue Jun 20 22:21:36 BST 2023
Control: reassign -1 software-properties-gtk 0.99.30-4
Control: retitle -1 software-properties-gtk: may overwrite debian-security with non-working entry
Control: affects -1 + gnome-software
On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 at 15:21:42 -0400, Jesse Rhodes wrote:
> I was alerted to this issue by an IRC user and was able to reproduce
> it in a clean bookworm vm.
>
> Steps to reproduce:
> 1 - install bookworm from 12.0.0 media, selecting the gnome desktop task
> 2 - log in and run Software from the Activites menu
> 3 - select Software Repositories from the upper right menu
> 4 - select any option in the "Download from:" menu, press close, and
> press refresh
>
> This results in an error dialog from gnome-software, with the relevant line
> "E: The repository 'https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-security
> Release' does not have a Release file."
>
> The correct entry would be deb.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security.
>
> Marked as critical severity because it disables all updates from
> debian-security.
The "Software & Updates" window opened by gnome-software's
"Software Repositories" menu item isn't actually part of gnome-software,
so I'm reassigning this to the package that seems to provide it.
smcv
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