Re: Automatic restart of services after a library upgrade

[Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>]

Hi Sebastian,

Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> I noticed that php restarts apache but this restart is part of php's
> postinst script. Is there are a trigger based solution of which I am
> not aware of?

There is also a hard-coded list of packages to be restarted if
installed (and configured) in the postinst scripts of libc6 and (at
least) libssl1.0.0 in case of they're upgraded to catch the most
important packages (like Apache, OpenSSH, etc.)

For all other needs of fully automatic service restarts I recommend
needrestart as already mentioned by Jonas.

P.S.: By coincidence there's currently a second thread about this
topic on debian-devel, too. See e.g.
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2015/01/msg00314.html and
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2015/02/msg00320.html

		Regards, Axel
-- 
 ,''`.  |  Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/
: :' :  |  Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin
`. `'   |  4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329  6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5
  `-    |  1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486  202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE