Debian's unattended upgrades and third party repositories

I have my system set up to perform automatic updates (unattended-upgrades), however, it doesn't work for third party repositories, I've installed Signal Desktop and I'm not receiving updates.

I'm aware that I need to add the appropriate piece of code to /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades, I just can't figure out the syntax.

This is the relevant part of /var/log/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades.log:

DEBUG Checking: signal-desktop ([<Origin component:'main' archive:'xenial' origin:'. xenial' label:'. xenial' site:'updates.signal.org' isTrusted:True>])

I'm using Debian Stretch.

user803949

Posted 2017-11-08T05:18:19.973

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I don't think you need any special syntax. The file name is also irrelevant — the files under /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ are all sourced and have the same impact as if their contents would have been put directly into /etc/apt/sources.list. So the sytnax you need is the same you'd use for that file: deb URL suite section. – kostix – 2017-11-08T08:17:34.680

You should first attempt to manually inspect if the package of interest is available by running apt update and then apt-cache policy signal-desktop (or whatever the name of the package is). – kostix – 2017-11-08T08:18:20.877

Debian's unattended upgrades and third party repositories

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