On Sat, 2016-12-17 at 04:42 +0100, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote: > On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 02:47:28AM +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote: > > In terms of stable (which seems to be what you are asking about) there > > is a trivial 99,9% shortcut: stable has no InRelease file for technical > > reasons ATM, so something is fishy if you get one (aka apt should > > display Ign lines).² > > Not fully true: > http://security.debian.org/dists/jessie/updates/InRelease
It _is_ correct. security.d.o/updates is not the stable distribution. The reasons that David mentioned specifically apply to the stable distribution in the main archive - i.e. stable - and the way that it's signed, not any other repositories or distributions that sit alongside stable and may have stable somewhere in their names. Regards, Adam