#1093318 needrestart: Incorrectly reports that the most recent kernel (-30) is not expected, I should reboot to get -29

Package:
needrestart
Source:
needrestart
Submitter:
joeDoe
Date:
2025-01-17 21:03:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1093318#5
Date:
2025-01-17 18:31:47 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

Previously there was a kernel upgrade from -29 to -30. I rebooted
to -30 and everthing was fine. Then yesterday, I did an upgrade to
fix a rsync regression. After that upgrade, needrestart reported
that the running kernel (-30) was not the expected version. It said
I should consider rebooting in order to get expected kernel version -29.

Today there was another upgrade (freedombox this time) after which
needrestart gave the same erroneous message concerning versions 29
and 30.

uname -a returns:

  Linux freedombox 6.1.0-30-marvell #1 Debian 6.1.124-1 (2025-01-12) armv5tel GNU/Linux

apt-cache policy shows the following for kernels -29 and -30

  linux-image-6.1.0-29-marvell:
    Installed: 6.1.123-1
    Candidate: 6.1.123-1
    Version table:
   *** 6.1.123-1 500
          500 http://192.168.1.10:3142/deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main armel Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  linux-image-6.1.0-30-marvell:
    Installed: 6.1.124-1
    Candidate: 6.1.124-1
    Version table:
   *** 6.1.124-1 500
          500 http://192.168.1.10:3142/deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates/main armel Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I expect that needrestart recognise that -30 is newer than -29 and that there is
therefor no need to encourage a reboot.