Bug#165258: libc6: Should restart services when upgrading from versions prior to 2.3

[amu@alum.mit.edu (Aaron M. Ucko)]

Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> writes:

> Heh, restart display managers is outside the scope of libc. Restarting
> services is pushing it enough I think.

Hmm, I wonder if it would be saner to have some mechanism (perhaps
just a directory fed to run-parts?) for packages to register
themselves for the next time this sort of change happens; having libc
list affected services itself does strike me as a layering violation.

OTOH, such events seem pretty rare (yay for compatibility within minor
versions), so adding extra infrastructure for them may be overkill.

On the gripping hand, Debian has always (rightly) placed a lot of
value on infrastructure AFAICT.

Thoughts?  (Obviously this is too late to use for 2.2 -> 2.3, but it
should be possible to complete the transition in plenty of time for
whatever follows it [2.4? 3.0?].)

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