Ubuntu
update-notifier package

gettext required by package scripts, but not a dependency

Bug #644578 reported by John Franklin on 2010-09-21

This bug affects 4 people

	Status	Importance	Assigned to
update-notifier (Debian)	Fix Released	Unknown	debbugs #620509
update-notifier (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Medium	Brian Murray
Oneiric	Fix Released	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-16ubuntu3.2) ...
/usr/share/update-notifier/notify-reboot-required: 16: gettext: not found
</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/update-notifier/notify-reboot-required
3) Observe the message 'gettext: not found'
4) Install update-notifier from precise-proposed
5) Execute sudo /usr/share/update-notiifer/notify-reboot-required
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://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/main Packages
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.9.8g-16ubuntu3 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages

See original description

Tags:

Related branches

lp:ubuntu/precise/update-notifier

lp:update-notifier/ubuntu

Superseded for merging into lp:~dennis/update-notifier/apt-proxies

Dennis Kaarsemaker: Pending requested 2014-05-03

Revision history for this message

Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote on 2011-09-05:

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.

affects:	openssl (Ubuntu) → update-notifier (Ubuntu)
Changed in update-notifier (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed
importance:	Undecided → Medium

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Richard Laager (rlaager) wrote on 2012-04-02:

update-notifier.gettext.patch Edit (680 bytes, text/plain)

I'm seeing the same thing in Precise. The code in notify-reboot-required makes a reference to cases when gettext is not installed, but it doesn't actually work. I've attached a patch, which should work.

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Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) wrote on 2012-04-02:

The attachment "update-notifier.gettext.patch" of this bug report has been identified as being a patch. The ubuntu-reviewers team has been subscribed to the bug report so that they can review the patch. In the event that this is in fact not a patch you can resolve this situation by removing the tag 'patch' from the bug report and editing the attachment so that it is not flagged as a patch. Additionally, if you are member of the ubuntu-reviewers team please also unsubscribe the team from this bug report.

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tags:

added: patch

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2012-04-10

Changed in update-notifier (Debian):
status:	Unknown → New

Brian Murray (brian-murray) on 2012-04-19

Changed in update-notifier (Ubuntu):
status:	Confirmed → In Progress
assignee:	nobody → Brian Murray (brian-murray)

Brian Murray (brian-murray) on 2012-04-19

description:

updated

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote on 2012-04-20:

Brian, apparently you built the source package without having gnome-common installed, which caused some changes in the autoconf scripts which I'm not sure that they are safe. I rejected your source and reuploaded with no autoconf changes.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2012-04-20:

This bug was fixed in the package update-notifier - 0.119ubuntu8.1

---------------
update-notifier (0.119ubuntu8.1) precise; urgency=low

* data/notify-reboot-required: echo notification if gettext is not available
thanks to Richard Laager for the patch (LP: #644578)
-- Brian Murray <email address hidden> Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:58:50 -0700

Changed in update-notifier (Ubuntu Precise):
status:	In Progress → Fix Released

Vibhav Pant (vibhavp) on 2012-05-22

Changed in update-notifier (Ubuntu Oneiric):
assignee:	nobody → Vibhav Pant (vibhavp)

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Vibhav Pant (vibhavp) wrote on 2012-05-23:

SRU for oneiric Edit (1.3 KiB, text/plain)

Brian Murray (brian-murray) on 2012-05-23

Changed in update-notifier (Ubuntu Oneiric):
status:	New → In Progress
importance:	Undecided → Medium

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote on 2012-05-23:

I've uploaded the oneiric debdiff to -proposed. Thanks for the debdiff!

Vibhav Pant (vibhavp) on 2012-05-25

Changed in update-notifier (Ubuntu Oneiric):
status:	In Progress → Fix Committed

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Chris Halse Rogers (raof) wrote on 2012-05-29: Please test proposed package

Hello John, or anyone else affected,

Accepted update-notifier into oneiric-proposed. The package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

tags:

added: verification-needed

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Vibhav Pant (vibhavp) wrote on 2012-06-04:

the package in -proposed works

Brian Murray (brian-murray) on 2012-07-18

tags:

added: verification-done
removed: verification-needed

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2012-07-18:

#10

This bug was fixed in the package update-notifier - 0.117ubuntu3.3

---------------
update-notifier (0.117ubuntu3.3) oneiric-proposed; urgency=low

* data/notify-reboot-required: echo notification if gettext is not
available, thanks to Richard Laager for the patch (LP: #644578)
-- Vibhav Pant <email address hidden> Wed, 23 May 2012 14:04:21 +0530