gettext required by package scripts, but not a dependency
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
update-notifier (Debian) |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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update-notifier (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Medium
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Brian Murray | ||
Oneiric |
Fix Released
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Medium
|
Vibhav Pant | ||
Precise |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Brian Murray |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: openssl
When recently upgrading libssl on an Ubuntu Hardy Linode VM, the following message was displayed:
<code>
Unpacking replacement libssl0.9.8 ...
Setting up libssl0.9.8 (0.9.8g-
/usr/share/
</code>
Indeed, gettext is not installed on this VM. Perhaps it should be included as a dep here? Or (since it's liikely to be the case for a number of packges) a dep on update-notifier?
Test Case:
1) Setup a 12.04 system without gettext installed
2) Execute sudo /usr/share/
3) Observe the message 'gettext: not found'
4) Install update-notifier from precise-proposed
5) Execute sudo /usr/share/
6) Observe nothing
root@redacted:~# lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 9.10
Release: 9.10
root@redacted:~# apt-cache policy libssl0.9.8
libssl0.9.8:
Installed: 0.9.8g-16ubuntu3.2
Candidate: 0.9.8g-16ubuntu3.2
Version table:
*** 0.9.8g-16ubuntu3.2 0
500 http://
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
0.
500 http://
Related branches
- Dennis Kaarsemaker: Pending requested
- Diff: 0 lines
Changed in update-notifier (Debian): | |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in update-notifier (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
assignee: | nobody → Brian Murray (brian-murray) |
description: | updated |
Changed in update-notifier (Ubuntu Oneiric): | |
assignee: | nobody → Vibhav Pant (vibhavp) |
Changed in update-notifier (Ubuntu Oneiric): | |
status: | New → In Progress |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
Changed in update-notifier (Ubuntu Oneiric): | |
status: | In Progress → Fix Committed |
tags: |
added: verification-done removed: verification-needed |
Changed in update-notifier (Debian): | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
This should be fixed in update-notifier. Since translation isn't critical, I suggest that notify- reboot- required should detect whether the gettext binary is present and if not then simply use the untranslated string.