[Aptitude-devel] Bug#895217: aptitude: Uses hostname of repo to determine what is a security update instead of repo metadata

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

Axel Beckert wrote:
> 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.

JFTR: This was prompted by
https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+source/aptitude/+bug/1370416, see
https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+source/aptitude/+bug/1370416/comments/14

		Regards, Axel
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