apticron for Debian
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apticron gives you an easy way to have upgrade notifications of your system by
email.

apticron has the capability to:

 * send daily emails about pending upgrades in your system;
 * give you the choice of receiving only those upgrades not previously notified;
 * automatically integrate to apt-listchanges in order to give you by email the
   new changes of the pending upgrade packages;
 * handle and warn you about packages put on hold via aptitude/dselect,
   avoiding unexpected package upgrades (see #137771);
 * give you all these stuff in a simple default installation;

You can configure the e-mail address apticron will use for mailing changes
to and other software options from /etc/apticron/apticron.conf.

Actually, apticron performs something you can partially do via cron script
provided either by the apt package itself or by the apt-cron package.  I
suggest you to check the cron script located in /etc/cron.daily/apt first.  For
a more complex setup, go to cron-apt package.

 -- Tiago Bortoletto Vaz, Sex Jan 30 14:14:59 BRT 2009