APT 1.3 Debian Package Manager to Forbid Insecure Repositories by Default

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

The APT 1.3 development continues at a fast pace, and it looks like it has just received yet another snapshot, apt 1.3~exp3, the third one in the series, which brings more goodies to the upcoming major release of the Debian GNU/Linux package manager.

Julian Andres Klode has been the one to report on the release of APT (Advanced Package Tool) 1.3 experimental 3 build, along with the latest unstable APT 1.2.14 release, which is now available for Debian Unstable and other Debian-based operating systems, such as Ubuntu Linux.

Things are looking good for the APT 1.3 command-line package manager, and it appears that caching of file hashes has been re-implemented in the apt-ftparchive command, insecure and weak allow-options have been added to sources.list, and APT now makes sure that the file size of .deb packages is included in the hashes list.

In order to indicate insufficiency, a tag has been added to hash errors, and it looks like the error messages have been improv… (read more)

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