[Bug 837943] Re: apt does not understand Debian repositories

[Michal Suchanek]

What's nonsensical about that?

Apt just does not think there are any packages in Debian repositories
when you add them to sources.list so it cannot download any.

That's all there is to this.

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Title:
  apt does not understand Debian repositories

Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Package from Debian repositories cannot be downloaded by apt.

  Maybe you want the exact repositories if Debian is not clear enough:

  deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian wheezy main restricted non-free
  deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security wheezy/updates main restricted non-free
  deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian sid main restricted non-free
  deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian experimental main restricted non-free

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: apt 0.8.13.2ubuntu4.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-8.10-generic 3.0.1
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-8-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: openafs
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed Aug 31 11:16:40 2011
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: apt
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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