Ubuntu APT repository out of date?

[uhthomas]

Environment

• OS: Ubuntu 21.04 (hirsute)
• age version: 1.0.0~beta5-1

What were you trying to do

Install the latest version of age, v1.0.0, released on September 6th.

What happened

The apt repository seems out of date? It's missing some pretty major things like the -R flag.

❯ sudo apt update
Ign:1 http://pkg.cloudflare.com focal InRelease
Hit:2 http://pkg.cloudflare.com focal Release                                                                                        
Hit:3 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hirsute InRelease                                                                          
Hit:4 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hirsute-updates InRelease                                   
Hit:7 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hirsute-backports InRelease           
Hit:8 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hirsute-security InRelease                           
Hit:6 https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt kubernetes-xenial InRelease                      
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.
❯ sudo apt upgrade age
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
age is already the newest version (1.0.0~beta5-1).
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
❯ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 21.04
Release:        21.04
Codename:       hirsute

[sharkooon]

Seems it doesn't exist anymore?
When i try to install age on Ubuntu 21.04 i'm getting: Unable to locate package age

# apt install age
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package age

[FiloSottile]

That's weird, I can't reproduce it. Did you try apt update first?

[sharkooon]

yes i did:

root@vps:/root# apt update
Hit:1 http://autoinstall.plesk.com/pool/PSA_18.0.38_7167 focal InRelease
Hit:2 http://autoinstall.plesk.com/pool/PHP_7.1.33_96 focal InRelease                                                                                          
Hit:3 http://autoinstall.plesk.com/pool/PHP_7.2.34_150 focal InRelease                                                                                         
Hit:4 http://autoinstall.plesk.com/PHP73_17 focal InRelease                                                                                                    
Hit:5 http://autoinstall.plesk.com/PHP74_17 focal InRelease                                                                                                    
Hit:6 http://autoinstall.plesk.com/PHP80_17 focal InRelease                                                                                                    
Hit:7 https://packages.grafana.com/oss/deb stable InRelease                                                                                                    
Get:8 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security InRelease [114 kB]                                                                                      
Hit:9 http://amsterdam1.clouds.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal InRelease                                                           
Get:10 http://amsterdam1.clouds.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates InRelease [114 kB]
Get:11 http://amsterdam1.clouds.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports InRelease [101 kB]
Get:12 http://amsterdam1.clouds.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main i386 Packages [545 kB]
Get:13 http://amsterdam1.clouds.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main amd64 Packages [1262 kB]
Get:14 http://amsterdam1.clouds.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/universe amd64 Packages [865 kB]
Get:15 http://amsterdam1.clouds.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/universe i386 Packages [642 kB]
Fetched 3642 kB in 3s (1232 kB/s)                      
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.

root@vps:/root# apt install age
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package age

[uhthomas]

It looks like you're on Ubuntu 20.04 focal. According to the package search, age doesn't exist for this release. Whereas a package search for impish clearly shows it exists.

We can settle this further by visiting the direct age package URLs for focal and impish.

I would recommend either upgrading to a newer release, or installing from source.

[FiloSottile]

That's for better or worse how non-"rolling" Linux distributions work. If you run Ubuntu 21.04, you get the versions of everything that existed when Ubuntu 21.04 entered its freeze. They don't update versions. You have the option of using the pre-built binaries if you need a more recent version on that system.

[uhthomas]

Weird, okay. Thank you.

The new version of Ubuntu was released yesterday (21.10 impish). Although age is more up to date than it was before, it's still not v1.0.0.

❯ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 21.10
Release:        21.10
Codename:       impish
❯ age --version
1.0.0~rc1

Is this completely out of age's control?

[FiloSottile]

Is this completely out of age's control?

Pretty much, yeah. All I can do is open bugs with Debian (which is upstream of Ubuntu) like https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=994069 but as you can see they can sit with no action for a while.