Package: dselect
Version: 1.22.18
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: martin-eric.racine@iki.fi
On a fresh install to hurd-i386, dselect seemingly is blissfully unaware
of files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d, so I pressed A to configure the
access method. This made dselect create a new /etc/apt/sources.list
pointing to Stable and following the old lists format:
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$ sudo dselect
Can't exec "setterm": Tiedostoa tai hakemistoa ei ole at /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/setup line 28.
Can't exec "setterm": Tiedostoa tai hakemistoa ei ole at /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/setup line 29.
Use of uninitialized value $boldon in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/setup line 222.
Use of uninitialized value $boldoff in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/setup line 222.
Set up a list of distribution source locations
Please give the base URL of the debian distribution.
Use of uninitialized value $boldon in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/setup line 226.
Use of uninitialized value $boldoff in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/setup line 227.
The access schemes I know about are: http ftp file
For example:
file:/mnt/debian,
ftp://ftp.example.org/debian,
http://deb.debian.org/debian,
Use of uninitialized value $boldon in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/setup line 133.
Use of uninitialized value $boldoff in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/setup line 133.
URL [http://deb.debian.org/debian]:
Please give the distribution tag to get or a path to the
package file ending in a /. The distribution
Use of uninitialized value $boldon in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/setup line 162, <STDIN> line 1.
tags are typically something like: Use of uninitialized value $boldoff in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/setup line 163, <STDIN> line 1.
stable unstable testing
Use of uninitialized value $boldon in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/setup line 165, <STDIN> line 1.
Use of uninitialized value $boldoff in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/setup line 165, <STDIN> line 1.
Distribution [stable]:
Please give the components to get
Use of uninitialized value $boldon in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/setup line 196, <STDIN> line 2.
The components are typically something like: Use of uninitialized value $boldoff in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/setup line 197, <STDIN> line 2.
main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
Use of uninitialized value $boldon in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/setup line 199, <STDIN> line 2.
Use of uninitialized value $boldoff in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/setup line 199, <STDIN> line 2.
Components [main contrib non-free non-free-firmware]:
Use of uninitialized value $boldon in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/setup line 249, <STDIN> line 3.
Use of uninitialized value $boldoff in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/setup line 249, <STDIN> line 3.
Would you like to add another source?[y/N]
Löytyi:1 http://repos.internal/debian unstable InRelease
Nouda:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable InRelease [151 kB]
Löytyi:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian-ports unreleased InRelease
Löytyi:4 http://deb.debian.org/debian-ports unstable InRelease
Löytyi:5 http://deb.debian.org/debian unstable InRelease
Nouda:6 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable/main Translation-en [6 109 kB] Nouda:7 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable/main Translation-fi [70,0 kB] Nouda:8 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable/main all Contents (deb) [33,9 MB] Nouda:9 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable/contrib Translation-en [48,8 kB] Nouda:10 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable/contrib all Contents (deb) [98,6 kB]
Nouda:11 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable/non-free Translation-en [67,0 kB]
Nouda:12 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable/non-free all Contents (deb) [839 kB]
Nouda:13 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable/non-free-firmware Translation-en [20,9 kB]
Nouda:14 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable/non-free-firmware all Contents (deb) [16,9 kB]
Noudettiin 41,3 Mt ajassa 1min 31s (455 kt/s)
Luetaan pakettiluetteloita... Valmis
N: Skipping acquire of configured file 'main/binary-hurd-i386/Packages' as repository 'http://deb.debian.org/debian stable InRelease' doesn't support architecture 'hurd-i386'
N: Skipping acquire of configured file 'contrib/binary-hurd-i386/Packages' as repository 'http://deb.debian.org/debian stable InRelease' doesn't support architecture 'hurd-i386'
N: Skipping acquire of configured file 'non-free/binary-hurd-i386/Packages' as repository 'http://deb.debian.org/debian stable InRelease' doesn't support architecture 'hurd-i386'
N: Skipping acquire of configured file 'non-free-firmware/binary-hurd-i386/Packages' as repository 'http://deb.debian.org/debian stable InRelease' doesn't support architecture 'hurd-i386'
N: Some sources can be modernized. Run 'apt modernize-sources' to do so. Yhdistetään saatavuustiedot
Replacing available packages info, using /var/cache/apt/available. Information about 76475 packages was updated.
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For the record, what we have even before dselect is first run:
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$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources
Types: deb deb-src
URIs: http://deb.debian.org/debian-ports/
Suites: unreleased
Components: main
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/debian-ports-archive-keyring.gpg
Types: deb
URIs: http://deb.debian.org/debian-ports/
Suites: unstable
Components: main
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/debian-ports-archive-keyring.gpg
Types: deb deb-src
URIs: http://deb.debian.org/debian/
Suites: unstable
Components: main
Architectures: all
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg
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$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/funkyware.sources
Types: deb deb-src
URIs: http://repos.internal/debian/
Suites: unstable
Components: main contrib non-free
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/funkyware-archive-unstable.pgp
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The setterm errors are probably due to Hurd missing a few packages in
its bootstrap. This can be safely ignored for the purpose of this bug
report.
The real issue is dselect insisting on creating an old-style
sources.list since it seemingly cannot deal with deb822 *.sources by
default. It would be a good idea to fix this on time for Trixie.
Thanks!
Martin-Éric
-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
APT prefers unreleased
APT policy: (995, 'unreleased'), (990, 'unstable')
Architecture: hurd-i386 (i686-AT386)
Kernel: GNU-Mach 1.8+git20250304-up-486/Hurd-0.9
Locale: LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fi:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
Versions of packages dselect depends on:
ii hurd-libs0.3 1:0.9.git20250420-1
ii libc0.3 2.41-8~1
ii libmd0 1.1.0-2+b1
ii libncursesw6 6.5+20250216-2
ii libtinfo6 6.5+20250216-2
dselect recommends no packages.
Versions of packages dselect suggests:
ii libdpkg-perl 1.22.18
ii perl 5.40.1-3
-- no debconf information
Control: reassign -1 apt
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On Mon, 2025-04-28 at 11:53:42 +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
Package: dselect
Version: 1.22.18
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: martin-eric.racine@iki.fi
On a fresh install to hurd-i386, dselect seemingly is blissfully unaware
of files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d, so I pressed A to configure the
access method. This made dselect create a new /etc/apt/sources.list pointing to Stable and following the old lists format:
dselect's apt method is shipped by apt itself.
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