Debian Bug report logs - #872515
apt: upgrade the binaries for a particular source package

Package: apt; Maintainer for apt is APT Development Team <[email protected]>; Source for apt is src:apt (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Luciano Bello <[email protected]>

Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2017 00:51:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

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Bug#872515; Package apt. (Fri, 18 Aug 2017 00:51:04 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

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From: Luciano Bello <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: apt: upgrade the binaries for a particular source package
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2017 20:28:53 -0400
Package: apt
Severity: wishlist

Hello,
      The security team releases a DSA when a package is vulnerable, with the 
recommendation "[...] upgrade your XX packages". The thing is, XX is a source 
package. The users should be able to upgrade the binaries from XX that are 
installed in their system.
    Something like:
 apt-get upgrade src:XX

It would be awesome to be able to recommend such a command in the DSAs.

Thanks, luciano

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