Apt update error: The repository bullseye-backports Release no longer has a Release file

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I get an error when running apt update:

The repository 'https://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-backports Release' no longer has a Release file.

What could be wrong?

$ sudo apt update
[sudo] password for purism: 
Ign:1 https://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-backports InRelease
Err:2 https://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-backports Release
  404  Not Found [IP: 199.232.18.132 443]
Get:3 https://repo.pureos.net/pureos byzantium InRelease [9,641 B]
Get:4 https://repo.pureos.net/pureos byzantium-updates InRelease [9,649 B]
Get:5 https://repo.pureos.net/pureos byzantium-security InRelease [9,650 B]
Reading package lists... Done  
E: The repository 'https://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-backports Release' no longer has a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can t be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
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Could it be because it’s EOL and finally got around to removing it to archive?

EOL for bullseye-backports*

as you may know, oldstable is only supported for 1 year. For bookworm this was 2024-06-10. We added a small grace period afterwards, but we will not allow updates after this point. We will also remove the suite from the debian mirrors soon.

Thanks for your attention

Originally posted on debian-backports-announce

Posted Tue Jul 2 11:44:15 2024

Also. https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/1m6gpaf/strange_problem_with_bullseye_backports/

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