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IDProjectCategoryView StatusLast Update
0008989Kali LinuxKali Package Bugpublic2024-11-23 09:38
ReporterAmitie10g Assigned To 
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityhave not tried
Status newResolutionopen 
Summary0008989: software-properties-common not found
Description

The package software-properties-common (and python-software-properties) cant be found wgen running apt install (after properly updating repo list). However, the packages are still available at the HTTP repo pool.

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arnaudr

arnaudr

2024-11-08 06:59

manager   ~0020020

As I can see, it was removed from Debian testing, due to a critical bug that has been unfixed for a very long time: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1038747

I imported it back in Kali, it should be back in the repos in a few hours.

Amitie10g

Amitie10g

2024-11-15 00:43

reporter   ~0020044

Since the bug reported at Debian bug tracker only affects debian-security and has been reproduced with Bookwork (but no Trixie yet), should be a good idea to reproduce that in Kali before making unavailable again, in order to ckeck if affects to Kali (considering it is not a daily-use distro). (I may attemp to reproduce soon).

arnaudr

arnaudr

2024-11-15 03:45

manager   ~0020045

Last edited: 2024-11-15 03:45

Well, I made the package available in Kali again. As for the bug itself, I don't have the time to work on it. From the description, it seems it is Debian-specific, and it shouldn't affect Kali. And at the same time, I'm not sure anyone ever tested this package for Kali, and checked that is useful and functional. Maybe it's not, sometimes packages (like this one, it seems) are highly specific to the distros they run on, and need to be adjusted/patched for other distros.

I'm not familiar myself with this package so I can't tell.

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2024-11-08 05:38 Amitie10g New Issue
2024-11-08 06:59 arnaudr Note Added: 0020020
2024-11-15 00:43 Amitie10g Note Added: 0020044
2024-11-15 03:45 arnaudr Note Added: 0020045
2024-11-15 03:45 arnaudr Note Edited: 0020045