Bug#752114: needrestart: bug-script runs /usr/games/pacman when trying to use ArchLinux's pacman package manager in /etc/needrestart/hook.d/30-pacman

2014-06-19 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: needrestart
Version: 1.0-1
Severity: normal

Dear Thomas and Patrick,

if I want to report a bug against needrestart, the bug script runs
/etc/needrestart/hook.d/30-pacman which calls pacman with neither a
given path nor with limiting $PATH.

On my system it finds the game binary /usr/games/pacman from the
package pacman instead of the expected ArchLinux's package manager
(which is named pacman, too, but isn't available in Debian).

Interestingly /usr/games/pacman seems to swallow the given options
without issues and happily runs, well, Pacman. :-D

See the screenshot at
http://gallery.noone.org/Screenshots/Fehler/?start=9image=needrestart-pacman-vs-pacman.png

This was probably the most hilarious bug I ever run into. Thanks for
that experience. :-)

P.S.: To get out of this so that I can still report the bug, I started
the following little script in another terminal:

  while :; do killall -INT pacman; sleep 0.1 ; done

-- Package-specific info:
#part type=text/plain disposition=attachment description=Bug script output
needrestart output:
Running kernel seems to be up-to-date.
No services need to be restarted.

checkrestart output:

#/part

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (110, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.15-rc8-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages needrestart depends on:
ii  dpkg 1.17.10
ii  libmodule-find-perl  0.12-1
ii  libmodule-scandeps-perl  1.13-1
ii  libproc-processtable-perl0.50-1
ii  libsort-naturally-perl   1.03-1
ii  libterm-progressbar-simple-perl  0.03-1
ii  perl 5.18.2-4

needrestart recommends no packages.

needrestart suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information


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Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-06-19 Thread Axel Beckert
Catching up with old curiosa threads...

Gunnar Wolf wrote:
 Jakub Wilk dijo [Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 09:06:38PM +0200]:
  * Russ Allbery r...@debian.org, 2014-04-04, 10:28:
  We should change the default desktop environment with each release
  
  And the default init system, too!
 
 We should just abolish the notion of default and be done with all
 those senseless flames.

So you want notion as DE? But that's in non-free!!!1!eleven!

SCNR, Axel
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