Question about Ubuntu support

Francis Grizzly Smit grizzly at smit.id.au
Sat May 30 03:38:23 UTC 2020


On 30/05/2020 10:22, Little Girl wrote:
> Hey there,
>
> Francis Grizzly Smit wrote:
>> On 30/05/2020 00:12, Little Girl wrote:
>>> ubuntu-support-status  
>> command not found on 20.04 hmmm
> Interesting. It looks like you're right. It's been removed. I found
> this page about that:
>
> https://askubuntu.com/questions/1233412/ubuntu-support-status-script-no-longer-available-in-ubuntu-20-04
>
> According to that page, you can now use this command, which just
> gives a summary, but no details:
>
> ubuntu-security-status
interesting stuff

ubuntu-security-status --thirdparty is interesting 

>
> There's no man page for that command, but running it with the --help
> option shows a brief list of command line options that can be used
> with it. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a way to get a list
> of package names with this new command.
>
> There's also a Debian package, mentioned at the bottom of the URL
> above, that can be installed to get the ubuntu-support-status command
> back, but since the Ubuntu developers felt it shouldn't be included
> in the 20.04 release, it's probably not a good idea to use it for
> keeping an eye on packages that will be receiving updates.
>

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