Incorrect properties for apt.corretto.aws repository

[orazioedoardo]

APT repositories should have a release file with properties decribing them.

apt.corretto.aws repository has Origin and Label properties as . stable which look like typos and/or placeholder values.

This can be seen by running apt-cache policy or by downloading the Release file.

Sensible values may be Amazon as Origin and Corretto as Label.

Having . stable doesn't allow proper disambiguation when adding the repository to something like unattended-upgrades.

Origin: . stable
Label: . stable
Suite: stable
Codename: stable
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2023 17:02:31 UTC
Architectures: amd64 arm64 i386
Components: main
Description: Generated by aptly

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[lutkerd]

Thanks for reporting this, we will look at changing those fields and ensuring we don't breaking any existing customers in the process.

[lutkerd]

We looked into this a bit and changing the Origin value would cause apt update to prompt for a y/n in an interactive shell or fail. This could break existing customers workflows and block critical security patches from getting installed.
You can find similar instances of this being reported and worked around:

• https://askubuntu.com/questions/1090676/how-to-update-google-chrome-70-after-change-in-origin-value
• .deb Linux repos changed Origin and Label fields, triggering update errors microsoft/vscode#198658
• https://andreaolivato.medium.com/how-to-solve-the-changed-its-origin-value-from-google-inc-to-google-llc-apt-error-4675f891be1f

[orazioedoardo]

We looked into this a bit and changing the Origin value would cause apt update to prompt for a y/n in an interactive shell or fail. This could break existing customers workflows and block critical security patches from getting installed.

Well this would be terrible. By looking at the Debian repository format seems that one (ugly) way to get out of it would be to host a second Release file like https://apt.corretto.aws/dists/debian/Release, linking the debian folder to stable and adding the repo to the system as deb […] https://apt.corretto.aws debian main.