Should use notify-reboot-required or similar

[Matt Zimmerman]

Binary package hint: wine

When wine is upgraded to an incompatible version, attempts to run wine programs result in:

 wine client error:38: version mismatch 278/280.
 Your wineserver binary was not upgraded correctly,
 or you have an older one somewhere in your PATH.
 Or maybe the wrong wineserver is still running?

until wineserver is shut down. If this can be automated, then a notification should be displayed to the user which will take care of it for them. If not, wine should simply run notify-reboot-required so that the user is prompted to reboot (which will shut down wineserver).

[Stephan Rügamer (sruegamer)]

updating wine via apt doesn't give you this message.
What version of wine are you running? Which release of Ubuntu are you using?

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

As I wrote in the report, this happens when programs are run, not when the package is updated. This is an upstream feature of wine.

In Ubuntu, it is appropriate to notify the user of things like this using the desktop notification infrastructure.

[Stephan Rügamer (sruegamer)]

I added this functionality to the latest wine 0.9.37 upload to gutsy.