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I hope I’m not completely OT asking this here: I just learned that the
Debian backports repos are marked "NotAutomatic: yes" (and
“ButAutomaticUpgrades: yes”), which is really handy as it
allows to always keep a suitable backports entry in
sources.list, while still being able to only install _specific_
backports packages by using apt’s -t command-line switch.
But while this works just fine for binary packages, it seems
to fail for source packages: They are treated as if the
backports repo is just an ordinary repo, i.e. an “apt-get
source –download-only <some-package>” always downloads
the (more recent) package from the backports repo _despite_
the fact that it is “NotAutomatic: yes”. Can anyone tell why
source packages are not treated the same as binary packages
for “NotAutomatic: yes” repos? It breaks the expectation
that you always get the corresponding sources for a binary
package. The session below shows
the issue using a Debian bullseye (snapshot) chroot, showing
that source- and binary versions do not match: # cat /etc/apt/sources.list |