Bug#781467: Mention needrestart in Security section

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

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 <thijs@debian.org>
Review-by: Justin B. Rye <justin.byam.rye@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>

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 &lt;5447EC14.2070502@debian.org&gt;
   <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