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Re: New to KDE on Debian



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.



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