Control: tags -1 pending On 2015-03-29 19:13, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > Package: release-notes > Severity: wishlist > Tags: patch > > Hi, > > Please see attached patch to mention the needrestart package in the Security > section. > > > Cheers, > Thijs >
Thanks, With Justin Rye's help, I reworded it slightly (see attached patch) and applied that. ~Niels
>From f73dc9e49f8aaa925636d27f4b8972f97c91c8db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: nthykier <nthykier@313b444b-1b9f-4f58-a734-7bb04f332e8d> Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2015 19:35:40 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Recommend "needrestart" package in whats-new/security (#781467) Initial-wording-by: Thijs Kinkhorst <[email protected]> Review-by: Justin B. Rye <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Niels Thykier <[email protected]> git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/ddp/manuals/trunk/release-notes@10680 313b444b-1b9f-4f58-a734-7bb04f332e8d --- en/whats-new.dbk | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/en/whats-new.dbk b/en/whats-new.dbk index 39f6801..0d41eb8 100644 --- a/en/whats-new.dbk +++ b/en/whats-new.dbk @@ -480,6 +480,16 @@ TODO: Need to include stuff from <[email protected]> <systemitem role="package">hardening-wrapper</systemitem> can provide a <systemitem>gcc</systemitem> with these flags enabled. </para> + + <para>New in this release is the <systemitem + role="package">needrestart</systemitem> package. When installed, it + will perform a check after each APT upgrade session. If any + services running on the system require a restart to take advantage + of changes in the upgraded packages then it offers to perform these + restarts. It is recommended to install <systemitem + role="package">needrestart</systemitem> to ensure that security + updates in libraries are propagated to running services. + </para> </section> <section id="mariadb"> <title>MariaDB next to MySQL</title> -- 2.1.4
