how reliable is "debian-security-support" ? AW: [SECURITY] Security support for Wheezy handed over to the LTS team

[Vincent McIntyre <vincent.mcintyre@csiro.au>]

Hi,

this still appears to be broken. Should I just be patient,
or is there some further action that needs to be taken?

Kind regards
Vince

% apt-cache policy debian-security-support
debian-security-support:
  Installed: 2015.04.04~deb7u1
  Candidate: 2016.05.09+nmu1~deb7u1
  Version table:
     2016.05.09+nmu1~deb7u1 0
        990 http://<approx>/security/ wheezy/updates/main amd64 Packages
 *** 2015.04.04~deb7u1 0
        990 http://<approx>/debian/ wheezy/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2015.04.04~bpo70+1 0
        200 http://<approx>/debian/ wheezy-backports/main amd64 Packages

% sudo apt-get install debian-security-support
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libjson0 libqscintilla2-8 libqt4-declarative libwireshark2 libwiretap2
  libwsutil2
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be upgraded:
  debian-security-support
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 16 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/25.5 kB of archives.
After this operation, 14.3 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Retrieving bug reports... Done
Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done
serious bugs of debian-security-support (2015.04.04~deb7u1 -> 2016.05.09+nmu1~deb7u1) <marked as done in some version>
 #823563 - debian-security-support: fails to remove: update-alternatives: error: no alternatives for security-support-ended (Fixed: debian-security-support/2016.05.09+nmu1)
Summary:
 debian-security-support(1 bug)
Are you sure you want to install/upgrade the above packages? [Y/n/?/...] y
Reading changelogs... Done
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 188704 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace debian-security-support 2015.04.04~deb7u1 (using .../debian-security-support_2016.05.09+nmu1~deb7u1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement debian-security-support ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
dpkg: error: error executing hook 'if [ -x /usr/share/debian-security-support/check-support-status.hook ] ; then /usr/share/debian-security-support/check-support-status.hook ; fi', exit code 2560
[ Rootkit Hunter version 1.4.0 ]
File updated: searched for 170 files, found 148
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

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