On Friday, August 15, 2025 1:35:07 PM Central Daylight Time Martin Steigerwald wrote: [...] > In general you can install the package debian-security-support and then > run the command check-support-status to get a report on limitations of > security support for certain installed packages. I am not sure how > complete this list is… but I found this to be helpful to have an idea > about the security status of some applications. And the package itself is > maintained by the security team. You need to check their dependencies > manually sometimes, as the information the check program delivers often > enough is related to libraries. > > It also hooks into apt and notifies you automatically for future updates > and package installations. > > In addition there are a host of other nice tools like debsecan, apticron > and needrestart. Just to inform you about some of the nice stuff we have > in Debian :) > > Best,
Thanks for the tips. I didn't know about the debian-security-support package. I'll check it out.
