Bug#68825: Path for debs on security.debian.org is wrong for potato

[offby1 <offby1@blarg.net>]

Package: www.debian.org
Version: N/A;
Severity: important

http://www.debian.org/security/ says

    You may find it convenient to use apt to get the latest security
    updates. This requires a line such as deb
    http://security.debian.org/ stable updates in your
    /etc/apt/sources.list file.

I wanted to get security updates for my potato machine, so I made the
obvious change to that line -- I tried

    http://security.debian.org/ potato updates

However, that didn't work; here's what I saw:

    07:56:02 [root@potato offby1]# apt-get update
    Err http://security.debian.org potato/updates Packages     
      404 Not Found
    Hit http://non-us.debian.org potato/non-US/main Packages   
    Hit http://non-us.debian.org potato/non-US/main Release    
    Hit http://non-us.debian.org potato/non-US/contrib Packages
    Hit http://non-us.debian.org potato/non-US/contrib Release 
    Hit http://non-us.debian.org potato/non-US/non-free Packages
    Hit http://non-us.debian.org potato/non-US/non-free Release
    Hit http://non-us.debian.org potato/non-US/main Sources    
    Hit http://non-us.debian.org potato/non-US/main Release     
    Hit http://non-us.debian.org potato/non-US/contrib Sources  
    Hit http://non-us.debian.org potato/non-US/contrib Release  
    Hit http://non-us.debian.org potato/non-US/non-free Sources 
    Hit http://non-us.debian.org potato/non-US/non-free Release 
    Ign http://security.debian.org potato/updates Release       
    Hit http://http.us.debian.org potato/contrib Packages
    Hit http://http.us.debian.org potato/contrib Release
    Hit http://http.us.debian.org potato/non-free Packages
    Hit http://http.us.debian.org potato/non-free Release
    Hit http://http.us.debian.org potato/main Sources
    Ign http://http.us.debian.org potato/main Release
    Hit http://http.us.debian.org potato/contrib Sources
    Ign http://http.us.debian.org potato/contrib Release
    Hit http://http.us.debian.org potato/non-free Sources
    Ign http://http.us.debian.org potato/non-free Release
    Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/dists/potato/updates/binary-i386/Packages
      404 Not Found
    Reading Package Lists... Done
    Building Dependency Tree... Done
    W: Couldn't stat source package list 'http://security.debian.org potato/updates Packages' (/var/state/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_potato_updates_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
    W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these missing files
    E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

Through trial and error, I determined that the correct line is 

    deb http://security.debian.org/ potato updates/contrib updates/main updates/non-free

Perhaps this means that the text on http://www.debian.org/security/ is
incorrect; or perhaps it means that the updates for potato are in the
wrong place.  But in any case, I shouldn't have had to experiment as I
did in order to determine the correct line for /etc/apt/sources.list;
I should have been able to copy the correct line directly from the
text on http://www.debian.org/security/.

-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.2
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux potato 2.2.14 #1 Tue Apr 25 10:11:42 EST 2000 i686