Bug#1105027: sqv: since yesterday's trickle to Testing, fails to verify Debian archive key

Martin-Éric Racine <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.apt.devel
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la 10.5.2025 klo 12.50 Holger Levsen ([email protected]) kirjoitti:
>
> control: affects -1 apt
> control: document that apt (and rust packages) require SSE2 on i386
> thanks

Incorrect title. APT doesn't require SSE2. Only sqv does. Making apt
Depends on sqv | gpgv fixes this.

> looping in the apt maintainers, please read the full report, in short:
> since the latest binNMU sqv now fails to run on i386 because due to
> #1095862 in rustc the baseline was raised to require SSE2, so causing
> apt to fail to verify because sqv fails to run...
>
> On Sat, May 10, 2025 at 09:37:04AM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote:
> > On Sat, May 10, 2025 at 12:26:10PM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> > > > That said, can you please try removing sqv and see what happens? apt should use
> > > > gpgv then instead and that should work.
> > > It cannot be removed without --force-depends since APT nowadays has
> > > sqv as a hard Depends.
> >
> > right.
> >
> > > It would be a good idea for APT to list
> > > supported alternatives e.g. "sqv | gpgv" instead, preferably in the
> > > same order as dpkg-dev does.
> >
> > I'm not sure why this isn't the case already, but maybe it's worth
> > cloning and reassigning this bug to src:apt.
> >
> > > Once sqv was force-removed, APT indeed was able to update its APT
> > > lists. However, since a Depends was removed, it now cannot perform any
> > > useful operation until that missing dependency is resolved.
> >
> > equivs helps with that, but is probably not installed :/
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