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  1. Bug #548981
  2. Comment #13

Comment 13 for bug 548981

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frizzle21 (frederik-nnaji) wrote : Re: [Bug 548981] Re: Indicator should only turn red after the last package has been installed

this bug is marked fixed in dpkg

On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 22:40, mahfiaz <email address hidden> wrote:

> Maybe the /usr/share/update-notifier/notify-reboot-required could check the
> /var/lib/dpkg/lock, and keep the loop until it is clean.
> Or maybe even whatever (applet?) watchs for /var/run/reboot_required should
> watch the dpkg lock as well and display the red only when reboot_required is
> present and dpkg/lock is not. So when you start a second upgrade or install,
> it would turn back to black.

sounds sane to me, but somebody obviously fixed dpkg's behaviour, right
Vish?
what was the fix then? i don't see it in Natty alpha yet.. how far along is
it and will it fix the premature indication by the session menu indicator?