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Recently Debian Wheezy LTS released a new version of a package, e.g. wget 1.13.4-3+deb7u4 (see announcement here), on my system I still have an old version e.g. wget 1.13.4-3+deb7u3 installed.

My sources.list only have one line:

deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main

My preferences file is not exiting at all. I've used another sources.list file for regular security upgrades. When doing an apt-get -o Dir::Etc::SourceList=security-sources.list update it looks fine:

Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates Release.gpg
Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates Release
Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates/main armel Packages
Reading package lists... Done

But when doing an apt-get upgrade or dist-upgrade it doesn't install newest package versions:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Also an apt-cache policy wget doesn't list the newest version:

wget:
  Installed: 1.13.4-3+deb7u3
  Candidate: 1.13.4-3+deb7u3

The problem is reproducible.

Why apt-get upgrade doesn't find and install newest version of the released packages, e.g wget deb7u4?

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I found the solution: in the command apt-get update there was another sources.list file used with -o Dir::Etc::SourceList=/etc/apt/security-sources.list But apt-get upgrade was called without this other source.list file - I assumed it is not needed anymore - but it is. Once I've used the same sources.list file for update and upgrade everything works fine. Thanks for any help

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When you tried to upgrade, the armel binaries weren’t ready yet: see the pool contents (timestamps are UTC AFAIK), they were uploaded at 11:13 UTC. If you try the upgrade again now it should work.

Your sources.list is somewhat incomplete; the recommended settings for Wheezy LTS are

deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free
deb-src http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free

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

deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib non-free

(take care when adding arch qualifiers, you’re liable to miss out on architecture-independent updates).

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  • Thanks for your hints! Even now it's not working, not with [ arch=armel,all ] and also not with all lines in sources.list
    – Achim
    Mar 13, 2017 at 23:03
  • Now I was able to simplify the sources.list by removing the arch qualifies. There have been an old architecture defined in dpkg, which I deleted. Now it also works without this qualifier - but still doesn't upgrade to newest wget
    – Achim
    Mar 14, 2017 at 0:03

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