Package: needrestart
Version: 3.6-4
Severity: minor
I upgraded to Debian 12, hoping this stupid error would finally go away:
bash5$ check-support-status
Limited security support for one or more packages
Unfortunately, it has been necessary to limit security support for some
packages.
The following packages found on this system are affected by this:
* Source:binutils
Details: Only suitable for trusted content; see
https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/87lfqsomtg....@mid.deneb.enyo.de
Affected binary packages:
- binutils (installed version: 2.40-2)
- binutils-common:amd64 (installed version: 2.40-2)
- binutils-x86-64-linux-gnu (installed version: 2.40-2)
- libbinutils:amd64 (installed version: 2.40-2)
- libctf-nobfd0:amd64 (installed version: 2.40-2)
- libctf0:amd64 (installed version: 2.40-2)
- libgprofng0:amd64 (installed version: 2.40-2)
Because I knew this had happened some time ago:
https://github.com/liske/needrestart/commit/e6176258e6b9f9f907736cbe1f8d148582a057d9
https://sources.debian.org/src/needrestart/3.6-4/debian/changelog/#L39-L40
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=986507
However, the binutils dependency was not actually removed!
https://sources.debian.org/src/needrestart/3.6-4/debian/control/#L24
Can you please fix this (remove "Depends: binutils")?
I can't find the git repo with the debian/ tree in it (there's no VCS-Git in
debian/control).
So I'm not 100% sure if this was intentional (needrestart needs binutils for
something else), or simply an oversight.
-- Package-specific info:
needrestart output:
checkrestart output:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.0
APT prefers stable-security
APT policy: (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500,
'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-9-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE,
TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages needrestart depends on:
ii binutils 2.40-2
ii dpkg 1.21.22
ii gettext-base 0.21-12
ii libintl-perl 1.33-1
ii libmodule-find-perl 0.16-2
ii libmodule-scandeps-perl 1.31-2
ii libproc-processtable-perl 0.634-1+b2
ii libsort-naturally-perl 1.03-4
ii libterm-readkey-perl 2.38-2+b1
ii perl 5.36.0-7
ii xz-utils 5.4.1-0.2
Versions of packages needrestart recommends:
ii libpam-systemd 252.6-1
ii systemd 252.6-1
Versions of packages needrestart suggests:
ii iucode-tool 2.3.1-3
ii needrestart-session 0.3-11
-- no debconf information
