Package: apt
Version: 2.6.1 (amd64)
Severity: normal

First I want to say that my system is nothing special. I don't have any fancy 
settings and most things are at default.

A few days ago I ran 'apt update' and it said something like this (error #1, 
This is not the only error. Please keep reading.):

"File has unexpected size (32 != 1104). Mirror sync in progress?"

Someone has the same error here 
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1147254/apt-update-fails-at-chrome-stable-main-file-has-unexpected-size-1103-1104

Normally this is not a problem because you can wait until the server works 
again.

So I waited until the next day and tried again. But I got another error which 
looks like this (error #2):

user1@user1-laptop1:/media/user1/SMO-STICK$ sudo apt update
Get:1 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security InRelease 
[48.0 kB]
Hit:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm InRelease
Hit:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates InRelease
Hit:4 https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian bookworm InRelease
E: Repository 'http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security 
InRelease' changed its 'Label' value from 'Debian' to 'Debian-Security'
N: Repository 'http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security 
InRelease' changed its 'Version' value from '12-updates' to '12'
N: Repository 'http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security 
InRelease' changed its 'Suite' value from 'stable-updates' to 'stable-security'
E: Repository 'http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security 
InRelease' changed its 'Codename' value from 'bookworm-updates' to 
'bookworm-security'
N: This must be accepted explicitly before updates for this repository can be 
applied. See apt-secure(8) manpage for details.
Do you want to accept these changes and continue updating from this repository? 
[y/N]

However if you look into waybackmachine you can see that these tags (Label, 
Version, ...) never changed.

This error didn't go away even after waiting multiple days.

I suppose that error #2 is a result of error #1. Error #1 seems to have changed 
the tags to wrong values.

Someone had the same problem in 2022 here 
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2022/12/msg00412.html

This person also has the issue with the debian-security repository. It seems to 
be a rare issue (bug).

So the actual bug is that apt wants me to confirm changed tags which actually 
never changed.

I now confirmed the message with 'y' and everything seems to work. I am only 
reporting this so it will get fixed and other users won't experience it.


Best regards
Stefan

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