Package: needrestart Version: 0.3-1 Severity: important Hi,
Let me start by saying that I was really pleased when I first saw 'needrestart' in Debian. I have now installed it on all of my machines. On one of them, however, 'needrestart' does not run. The machine in question is an 'armel' 'SheevaPlug'. Due to limited space, I have removed all non-essential packages, including 'dialog', and configured 'debconf' to use its 'readline' frontend. This is also the reason why I'm reporting this bug from my 'i686' laptop, instead. It is obvious that, in order to be usable, 'needrestart' requires, at least, a dialog-like program to be available; otherwise it fails with: ---8<--- Looking for daemons to restart ------------------------------ Debconf: CANCELED --->8--- After installing, i.e. 'whiptail' I am presented with a familiar list/menu. The problem can be solved in either of the two ways: 1. "Fix" 'needrestart' to work with debconf's 'readline' frontend. 2. Dependency, at least, on 'dialog' or 'whiptail' needs to be put in place - I'd suggest the latter as it is both smaller, and itself has fewer dependencies. Having a logical 'or' for both (more?) would suffice. P.S. I have obviously omitted GUI frontends here, as these, I presume, should simply work if enabled. P.P.S. I have noticed that the manual page for 'needrestart' bears the version number of '0.2', which obviously doesn't match the version available in the packaged. I'd suggest modifying the man page to either include the version number only in the footer, and it being updated with respective version of the program, or removing it altogether. Thanks in advance. Kind regards, rjc -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.11-1-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages needrestart depends on: ii dpkg 1.17.1 ii libmodule-find-perl 0.11-1 ii perl 5.18.1-4 needrestart recommends no packages. needrestart suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
