apticron is a shell script that send you an email report when new packages are available on your debian server.
Install apticron
As root, do:
apt-get install apticron
apticron configuration via /etc/apticron/apticron.conf
To receive reports on your email change the EMAIL variable in the configuration file. By default, reports are sent to the root user.
EMAIL=”root” -> EMAIL=”you@domain.com”
Reports received
Now apticron will [...]