On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 11:14:32PM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote: > Yay, Popcorn! > > Mike Hommey wrote: > > > Consider, for example, an unattended-upgrades process that > > > installs security updates automatically. Users may continue > > > to run instances of old insecure versions for long periods > > > with no indication that an upgrade has been installed. > > > Generally, Debian will restart long-running system processes > > > (i.e. daemons) in this sort of situation but not user processes. > > > This is a particular issue for firefox because of its security > > > characteristics. > > > > That's not limited to firefox. That's also true of libreoffice, gnome, > > chromium, etc. > > Nope. It's definitely not true for Chromium. (And not for the > Firefox-based Tor Browser either.) Chromium and Tor Browser both > notify their users as Phil wants it for Firefox. And as it had been > implemented (IMHO successfully) for Firefox years ago. > > That feature though was removed again from the Debian package (and > IIRC never managed to land in stable) as it was said to "not work > properly". I though can't remember that I ever had issues with that > feature, really appreciated the feature and never understood why it > was removed again from Debian's Firefox. > > So please reintroduce this feature again. > > Upstream should really understand the need for such feature as they're > copying everything Chrome/Chromium does anyway. So why not copying > that feature, too? </cynism>
It's not because a few packages do it that the problem is not a general one in Debian. Mike
