Hi,

Steve McIntyre writes:
> On Mon, Sep 03, 2018 at 09:45:39AM +0200, intrigeri wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>Sven Joachim:
>>> The package priorities on security.debian.org differ from the ones in
>>> the main archive
>>
>>Here's another brand new example:
>>
>>$ apt-cache show mutt | grep -E '^(Version|Priority)' 
>>Version: 1.7.2-1+deb9u1
>>Priority: standard
>>Version: 1.7.2-1
>>Priority: optional
>>
>>This causes mutt to be installed by default in some setups since
>>1.7.2-1+deb9u1 was uploaded, which was not the case before 2018-08-17.
>>
>>Is there anything a DD who's not on the ftpmaster team can do to help
>>fix that? (I was not able to find the relevant file that needs to
>>be updated.)
>
> Nod. That exact example is causing real problems for users - see
>
>   https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2018/11/msg00022.html

I fixed this for mutt (and mutt-kz) in stable (pending the next
publishing of the security archive), but we should make sure that
overrides on security-master match those on ftp-master (and not just
import the initial override and ignore later updates).  I'll leave the
bug open for that.

Ansgar

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