Upgrade packages whose urgency is critical?

[kung fu buntu]

Is there any way to know which packages have their urgency set to a certain level, like critical or high, using apt tools?

My idea is to get a daily list of packages which need to be upgraded ASAP.
This would have been very usefull with the openssh/ssl severe exploit.

I have no idea how this can be done using "apt-cache search"

Thanks

[brian_p]

Is there any way to know which packages have their urgency set to a certain level, like critical or high, using apt tools?

apt-listchanges, perhaps.


My idea is to get a daily list of packages which need to be upgraded ASAP.
This would have been very usefull with the openssh/ssl severe exploit.


Why not just upgrade?

[kung fu buntu]

Because I use Debian unstable... and it's not always easy to upgrade every package.
There are things that break and there are bugs (shown by apt-bugs I think).

So I can't keep all packages up to date...

[cdenley]

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn

I have the RSS feed in my firefox toolbar. I guess this would be the debian equivalent.

http://www.debian.org/security/#DSAS

On servers, I usually disable everything but the security branch, then upgrade whenever there is a security notice that affects me.