Do not treat debian stable-updates as security updates #716
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Debian-updates are pending packages between dot-releases, they are not security updates. When Debian has a dot-release, for example 8.7, debian-updates is empty. Between 8.7 and 8.8, updates packages go to debian-updates, and on 8.8, all packages in debian-updates are moved (or replaced) by packages in the main repo, leaving debian-updates empty again. Security updates are managed outside of this.
The previous output just had debian-updates and backports, none of which are security updates. Adjusted expected results accordingly, using curl as an example.
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Thank you @kbarmen for your contribution. This has been merged into master and should make it into the next release. Thank you |
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Debian-updates are pending packages between dot-releases, they are not security updates.
When Debian has a dot-release, for example 8.7, debian-updates is empty. Between 8.7 and 8.8,
updates packages go to debian-updates, and on 8.8, all packages in debian-updates are moved (or replaced) by packages in the main repo, leaving debian-updates empty again.
Security updates are managed outside of this.
I recently added debian-updates to the apt repos on our Debian servers, with the result that all the systems had alarms about missing security updates. All these alarms were false, security updates had been installed, and it was packages in updates they were alarming about. The change to the puppet module was trivial, editing the spec tests was more time consuming :)