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  • I will try this out as soon as I get a chance. Can you say anything additional as to whether this approach is recommended by the creators of apt - with a link to further information if possible? Or is it more of a homegrown solution? Commented Mar 28, 2020 at 14:58
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    Can confirm that this works as expected for my case. I did a bit more digging in the apt documentation and the closest I found to a mention of something similar to what is need was in the feature wishlist, and was apparently not very well received: bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=873689 Commented Mar 30, 2020 at 13:42
  • Yes, I dug through the docs and couldn’t find anything... Commented Mar 30, 2020 at 13:44
  • If you are running apt upgrade and get 404 errors, this fix also works to solve that problem. Commented Jun 16, 2023 at 16:58