[Pkg-ia32-libs-maintainers] Bug#537455: ia32-apt-get: ia32-aptitude does not update periodically

[Toby Speight]

Package: ia32-apt-get
Version: 22
Severity: normal

[I'm not sure whether this is 'normal' or 'wishlist' - it depends on
whether the Apt::Periodic functionality is supposed to be supported]

I have the following in a my apt.conf.d:

/--------[ 50periodic ]
| APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "1";
| APT::Periodic::Download-Upgradeable-Packages "1";
| APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade "0";
\--------

so that I get the latest package lists and packages using cheap-rate
night-time bandwidth.  But this seems to cause only (native) aptitude's
package list to update, and ia32-aptitude sees no new packages (possibly
a security risk, given that security updates may be missed).  If
ia32-aptitude is supposed to be a replacement, then there's certainly a
shortfall in this area.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (900, 'stable'), (400, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30 (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages ia32-apt-get depends on:
ii  debconf                       1.5.27     Debian configuration management sy
ii  ia32-libs-tools               22         Tools for converting i386 debs for

Versions of packages ia32-apt-get recommends:
ii  fakeroot                      1.12.4     Gives a fake root environment

ia32-apt-get suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
* ia32-apt-get/allowed-packages: All
  ia32-apt-get/undo-old-sources-list: