[Bug 1462787] Re: Feature request: support for pulling packages from -security and -updates

Marc Deslauriers marc.deslauriers at canonical.com
Fri Jun 19 12:12:44 UTC 2015


Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu
better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears
to be a "regular" (non-security) bug.  I have unmarked it as a security
issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to
cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy.
Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

** Information type changed from Public Security to Public

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Title:
  Feature request: support for pulling packages from -security and
  -updates

Status in debootstrap package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  It doesn't really make sense that when using debootstrap to create an
  Ubuntu <chroot|container|directory|installation|whatever>, old
  versions of packages will be installed, rather than the latest
  versions from the archives. The first thing that you'd need to do
  would be to immediately go and upgrade everything, which is just
  unnecessary duplication of downloading and installing. An Ubuntu
  installation (for example, Precise) created by the current version
  will be extremely insecure.

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