As noted in Message 59, the 'updates available' feature was useful, I could see at login (via ssh w/UsePAM yes) time if I had system updates available. Now that feature is gone and not only are the individual scripts gone from where they were, the entire directory ('/etc/update-motd.d') is gone with no explanation.
Adding to the confusion is the fact that the original update-motd mechanism for Debian was never properly explained in the documentation for either update-notifier (-common) or libpam-modules, and the scripts still live in '/usr/lib/update-notifier' but are not invoked anywhere from within update-notifier that I can see. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org