Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.10-6 Severity: normal Tags: confirmed upstream
aptitude uses the hostname of APT repository (e.g. "security.debian.org" to determine what is a security update and what isn't instead of using the repository metadata provided by apt's libraries. >From src/generic/apt/apt.cc: bool is_security(const pkgCache::VerIterator &ver) { static std::regex site_regex { "^security\\.(.+\\.)?debian.org$" }; std::smatch site_match; for (pkgCache::VerFileIterator F = ver.FileList(); !F.end(); ++F) { pkgCache::PkgFileIterator fileit = F.File(); if (!fileit.end()) { string site = fileit.Site() ? fileit.Site() : ""; string label = fileit.Label() ? fileit.Label() : ""; std::regex_search(site, site_match, site_regex); if (!site_match.empty() && label == "Debian-Security") return true; } } return false; } This should rather look at metadata (especially the label) like this: $ apt-cache policy | fgrep -i security 990 http://security.debian.org stretch/updates/non-free i386 Packages release v=9,o=Debian,a=stable,n=stretch,l=Debian-Security,c=non-free,b=i386 origin security.debian.org 990 http://security.debian.org stretch/updates/contrib i386 Packages release v=9,o=Debian,a=stable,n=stretch,l=Debian-Security,c=contrib,b=i386 origin security.debian.org 990 http://security.debian.org stretch/updates/main i386 Packages release v=9,o=Debian,a=stable,n=stretch,l=Debian-Security,c=main,b=i386 origin security.debian.org 990 https://security.debian.ethz.ch stretch/updates/non-free i386 Packages release v=9,o=Debian,a=stable,n=stretch,l=Debian-Security,c=non-free,b=i386 origin security.debian.ethz.ch 990 https://security.debian.ethz.ch stretch/updates/contrib i386 Packages release v=9,o=Debian,a=stable,n=stretch,l=Debian-Security,c=contrib,b=i386 origin security.debian.ethz.ch 990 https://security.debian.ethz.ch stretch/updates/main i386 Packages release v=9,o=Debian,a=stable,n=stretch,l=Debian-Security,c=main,b=i386 origin security.debian.ethz.ch -- Package-specific info:
Terminal: eterm-color $DISPLAY is set. which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude aptitude version information: aptitude 0.8.10 Compiler: g++ 7.2.0 Compiled against: apt version 5.0.2 NCurses version 6.0 libsigc++ version: 2.10.0 Gtk+ support disabled. Qt support disabled. Current library versions: NCurses version: ncurses 6.1.20180127 cwidget version: 0.5.17 Apt version: 5.0.2 aptitude linkage: linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffe162c2000) libapt-pkg.so.5.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.0 (0x00007f25c9b42000) libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007f25c9912000) libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007f25c96e8000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f25c94e1000) libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007f25c91e9000) libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007f25c8edc000) libboost_iostreams.so.1.62.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.62.0 (0x00007f25c8cc4000) libboost_filesystem.so.1.62.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_filesystem.so.1.62.0 (0x00007f25c8aab000) libboost_system.so.1.62.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_system.so.1.62.0 (0x00007f25c88a7000) libxapian.so.30 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxapian.so.30 (0x00007f25c849c000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f25c827e000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f25c7ef9000) libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f25c7b66000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f25c794e000) libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f25c7594000) libresolv.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libresolv.so.2 (0x00007f25c737d000) libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f25c7163000) libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f25c6f53000) liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007f25c6d2d000) liblz4.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1 (0x00007f25c6b18000) libudev.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1 (0x00007f25c68fa000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f25ca511000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f25c66f6000) librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007f25c64ee000) libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f25c62e7000)
-- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (110, 'experimental'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'buildd-experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.15.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii aptitude-common 0.8.10-6 ii libapt-pkg5.0 1.6~beta1 ii libboost-filesystem1.62.0 1.62.0+dfsg-5 ii libboost-iostreams1.62.0 1.62.0+dfsg-5 ii libboost-system1.62.0 1.62.0+dfsg-5 ii libc6 2.27-3 ii libcwidget3v5 0.5.17-7 ii libgcc1 1:8-20180402-1 ii libncursesw5 6.1-1 ii libsigc++-2.0-0v5 2.10.0-2 ii libsqlite3-0 3.23.0-1 ii libstdc++6 8-20180402-1 ii libtinfo5 6.1-1 ii libxapian30 1.4.5-1 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-12 ii sensible-utils 0.0.12 Versions of packages aptitude suggests: ii apt-xapian-index 0.49 ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc] 0.8.10-6 ii debtags 2.1.5 pn tasksel <none> -- no debconf information