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[Julian Andres Klode <juliank@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dropping the AppStream task, as that's more of an APT bug. With the SRU
and change in yakkety, appstream data is now generated even if some
updates failed.

Note that I chose not to close this bug report with those uploads, as
this bug report sort of keeps track of the larger problem of these error
class, and not the appstream-related aspect in particular.

With this most important problem gone, I consider marking this bug as
wontfix for xenial - Long term we will have a reworked handling of
untrusted repositories, but I think this is probably going to be to
invasive for xenial to backport.

** No longer affects: appstream (Ubuntu)

** No longer affects: appstream (Ubuntu Xenial)

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Title:
  apt signature requierements prevent updates from some repositories

Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in apt source package in Xenial:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Since xenial updated the requirements for the strength of PGP
  signatures of packages, packages from some repositories are no longer
  updated. Apt-get update reports these errors:

  E: Failed to fetch http://[...]/Release  No Hash entry in Release file /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/[...] which is considered strong enough for security purposes
  E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

  While the motivation for the change is valid, the result is a
  potential security problem, as the new versions of the packages that
  may fix recently discovered vulnerabilities are not automatically
  installed.

  One less important but unfortunate effect is a scary message that is
  displayed to the user, without clear explanation that the problem
  needs to be addressed by the repository owner.

  Related: Bug #1558331

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