tags 986507 upstream fixed-upstream
thanks

Hi,

thanks for the hint. I've applied a slitly modified patch upstream to
replace binutils's strings by grep in needrestart 3.6+.

Replacing the bintuils dependency by GNU grep lowers the total
installation size by an order of magnitude.


Regards,
Thomas

On Fri, 2021-10-08 at 15:56 +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote:
> Trent W. Buck wrote:
> > I want check-support-status to be happy, but I need needrestart:
> > 
> >     bash5$ check-support-status
> >     ⋮
> >     * Source:binutils
> >       Details: Only suitable for trusted content; see
> > https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/87lfqsomtg....@mid.deneb.enyo.de
> >     ⋮
> > 
> >     bash5$ aptitude why binutils
> >     i   needrestart Depends binutils
> 
> This annoyed me again today.
> I noticed an even simple patch is to use "grep -ao".
> This is working for me.
> 
> You are already using "grep -a" elsewhere in the script, so
> this is only assuming grep supports -o.
> GNU grep supports both; busybox grep supports neither.

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