On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 4:30 AM, Nis Martensen <nis.marten...@web.de> wrote:
> It might be possible to determine whether an installed package is a
> security update by inspecting the output of apt-cache policy pkgname.
> Not sure if this information can also be obtained used python3-apt.

point releases usually include all the security updates from the
previous point release, so they would come from the "main" repo and
not the security one (also apt-cache policy would require to have the
security.d.o source, which is not necessarily the case on every single
machine)

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