Fixing 'Repository changed its 'Codename' value' errors during Debian upgrades
Debian 13 (Trixie) was released yesterday. 🎉
As I refer to the stable
repositories in my sources list, the following error is now shown since their release information changed:
# apt-get update Hit:1 https://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security InRelease Hit:2 https://download.docker.com/linux/debian bookworm InRelease Get:3 http://mirror.iway.ch/debian stable InRelease [138 kB] Get:4 http://mirror.iway.ch/debian stable-updates InRelease [47.1 kB] Hit:5 https://deb.goaccess.io bookworm InRelease Reading package lists... Done N: Repository 'http://mirror.iway.ch/debian stable InRelease' changed its 'Version' value from '12.11' to '13.0' E: Repository 'http://mirror.iway.ch/debian stable InRelease' changed its 'Codename' value from 'bookworm' to 'trixie' N: This must be accepted explicitly before updates for this repository can be applied. See apt-secure(8) manpage for details. N: Repository 'http://mirror.iway.ch/debian stable-updates InRelease' changed its 'Version' value from '12-updates' to '13-updates' E: Repository 'http://mirror.iway.ch/debian stable-updates InRelease' changed its 'Codename' value from 'bookworm-updates' to 'trixie-updates' N: This must be accepted explicitly before updates for this repository can be applied. See apt-secure(8) manpage for details.
To fix this message (and enable upgrading to the new release!), I use the following command:
# apt-get --allow-releaseinfo-change update ... N: Repository 'http://mirror.iway.ch/debian stable InRelease' changed its 'Version' value from '12.11' to '13.0' N: Repository 'http://mirror.iway.ch/debian stable InRelease' changed its 'Codename' value from 'bookworm' to 'trixie' N: Repository 'http://mirror.iway.ch/debian stable-updates InRelease' changed its 'Version' value from '12-updates' to '13-updates' N: Repository 'http://mirror.iway.ch/debian stable-updates InRelease' changed its 'Codename' value from 'bookworm-updates' to 'trixie-updates'
Afterwards I run the usual apt-get dist-upgrade to upgrade the system to the new Debian version.