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On Debian / Ubuntu, if I do apt search, I get a useful output of packages that match my search with results that look like this:

yubikey-val/stable,unstable 2.38-2 all
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I understand how most of these fields are populated. However, what does stable,unstable mean and how does it get populated?

I have some custom packages that I publish to my own debian repository on S3, and these all say unknown,unknown (occasionally unknown,unknown,now).

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The stable,unstable part is built by considering all matching versions of a package in the accessible repositories (as displayed by apt-cache policy yubikey-val), and listing the “Suite” entry of the repositories in which a given version is available. now is used to indicate the currently-installed version (this corresponds to the /var/lib/dpkg/status entry in apt-cache policy’s output).

Thus

yubikey-val/stable,unstable 2.38-2 all

means that the yubikey-val package, version 2.38-2, is available for the all architecture from the repositories containing the stable and unstable suites.

When you see unknown, that means the repository doesn’t have a “Suite” entry in its Release file.

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