[Bug 1813354] Re: release-upgrader unable to deal with sources.list entries of "deb mirror://"

[Nick Jennings]

I don't remember for sure which article it was, but I was travelling at
the time and looking to auto-select the fastest mirrors. Searching now
finds a familiar-looking article and forum answer:

https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-select-the-fastest-apt-mirror-on-ubuntu-linux
https://askubuntu.com/questions/39922/how-do-you-select-the-fastest-mirror-from-the-command-line

This person seems to have issues with using the 'mirros' solution as well:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/319433/making-mirror-mirrors-ubuntu-com-highly-available

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Title:
  release-upgrader unable to deal with sources.list entries of "deb
  mirror://"

Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  It says I don't have an official apt source listed, which I do. The
  error message was pretty vague, so I'm not sure what information to
  add. Here's my sources list:

  $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list | grep ^d
  deb mirror://mirrors.ubuntu.com/mirrors.txt bionic main restricted
  deb mirror://mirrors.ubuntu.com/mirrors.txt bionic-updates main restricted
  deb mirror://mirrors.ubuntu.com/mirrors.txt bionic universe
  deb mirror://mirrors.ubuntu.com/mirrors.txt bionic-updates universe
  deb mirror://mirrors.ubuntu.com/mirrors.txt bionic multiverse
  deb mirror://mirrors.ubuntu.com/mirrors.txt bionic-updates multiverse
  deb mirror://mirrors.ubuntu.com/mirrors.txt bionic-backports main restricted universe multiverse
  deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu bionic partner
  deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security main restricted
  deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security universe
  deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security multiverse
  deb http://archive.canonical.com/ bionic partner

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
  Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:18.04.29
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-29.31-generic 4.15.18
  Uname: Linux 4.15.0-29-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.5
  Architecture: amd64
  CrashDB: ubuntu
  Date: Fri Jan 25 20:38:12 2019
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-12-27 (28 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180725)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2019-01-25 (0 days ago)
  VarLogDistupgradeAptlog:
   Log time: 2019-01-25 20:37:30.492890
   Log time: 2019-01-25 20:37:34.539108
   Log time: 2019-01-25 20:37:52.534002
   Log time: 2019-01-25 20:38:14.661362
  VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:
   
  mtime.conffile..etc.update-manager.release-upgrades: 2019-01-25T20:36:20.332520

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