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Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 18:10:04 -0600
From: "Karl O. Pinc" <k...@meme.com>
To: Michael Vogt <m...@debian.org>, Balint Reczey <rbal...@ubuntu.com>
Subject: Packaging policy to flag unattended-upgrades reboot
Hello,
Do you have any suggestions for updating the
Debian Policy docs so that packagers know what
must be done to inform when an update requires
a reboot?
I filed the following bugs against debian-policy
and systemd:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=919507
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=919509
thinking that packages are supposed to provide
breadcrumbs so that unattended-upgrades knows when
a package upgrade requires a reboot.
I've been invited to submit a patch to Debian policy.
But looking at the packaging of packages I _thought_
flagged reboots I don't see anything.
I know the kernel flags a reboot, but see that
unattended-upgrades is dropping a config into
/etc/kernel/postinst.d/.
I thought libc6 flagged a reboot, but can't find
anything.
I've got an email from a box that flagged a
reboot on upgrade of tomcat8, but can't find
anything in the packaging. Why I got an email is
now a mystery.
I would think that having the unattended-upgrade
package have to keep track of which packages
require reboot would not scale....
Thanks.
Regards,
Karl <k...@meme.com>
Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
-- Robert A. Heinlein
P.S. Somebody on #debian-mentors was able to do a
search today for all the packages which, I think,
contained mention of "reboot-required". I don't
know what they did or how they did it.
There was a list of maybe 15 or 20 packages,
but the remark was that some of these are
tool-related. (?) I forget the details.
Karl <k...@meme.com>
Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
-- Robert A. Heinlein