could not get source packages when synchronizing debian-security repository
Hello developers,
I used apt-mirror command to get source packages and binary packages
from http://security.debian.org/debian-security/.
The result is that I can not get source packages, as follows,
1. mirror.list file
```
$ cat /etc/apt/mirror.list
############# config ##################
#
set base_path /data/security/spool/apt-mirror
#
set nthreads 20
set _tilde 0
#
############# end config ##############
#deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ stable-security main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ stable-security main
......
```
2. command
# apt-mirror
......
11.3 GiB will be downloaded into archive.
Downloading 568 archive files using 20 threads...
Begin time: Thu Nov 6 14:14:15 2025
[20]... [19]... [18]... [17]... [16]... [15]... [14]... [13]... [12]...
[11]... [10]... [9]... [8]... [7]... [6]... [5]... ^[[B[4]... [3]...
[2]... [1]... [0]...
3. result (I can not get source packages)
$ ls
/data/security/spool/apt-mirror/mirror/security.debian.org/debian-security/pool/updates/main/
a b c d e f g h i j l libc libj libx n o p q r s t
u v w x
$ ls
/data/security/spool/apt-mirror/mirror/security.debian.org/debian-security/pool/updates/main/a/aide/aide
aide_0.19.1-2+deb13u1_amd64.deb aide-common_0.19.1-2+deb13u1_all.deb
aide-dynamic_0.19.1-2+deb13u1_all.deb
$ ls
/data/security/spool/apt-mirror/mirror/security.debian.org/debian-security/pool/updates/main/w/webkit2gtk/
gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-4.1_2.50.1-1~deb13u1_amd64.deb
libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-bin_2.50.1-1~deb13u1_all.deb
libjavascriptcoregtk-6.0-dev_2.50.1-1~deb13u1_amd64.deb
gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-6.0_2.50.1-1~deb13u1_amd64.deb
libjavascriptcoregtk-4.1-0_2.50.1-1~deb13u1_amd64.deb
libjavascriptcoregtk-bin_2.50.1-1~deb13u1_amd64.deb
gir1.2-webkit2-4.1_2.50.1-1~deb13u1_amd64.deb
libjavascriptcoregtk-4.1-dev_2.50.1-1~deb13u1_amd64.deb
libwebkit2gtk-4.0-doc_2.50.1-1~deb13u1_all.deb
gir1.2-webkit-6.0_2.50.1-1~deb13u1_amd64.deb
libjavascriptcoregtk-6.0-1_2.50.1-1~deb13u1_amd64.deb
libwebkit2gtk-4.1-0_2.50.1-1~deb13u1_amd64.deb
I wolud like to get security mirror including source packages and
binary packages from http://security.debian.org stable-security.
Could you provide some guidance or other methods for synchronizing
debian-security repository? Thank you.
Best regards,
Dandan Zhang
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