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Bug#919507: marked as done (debian-policy: Policy contains no mention of /var/run/reboot-required)

Your message dated Sun, 29 Sep 2019 18:34:02 +0000
with message-id <E1iEe1C-000DUt-Aj@fasolo.debian.org>
and subject line Bug#919507: fixed in debian-policy 4.4.1.0
has caused the Debian Bug report #919507,
regarding debian-policy: Policy contains no mention of /var/run/reboot-required
to be marked as done.

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Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.9.8.0
Severity: normal

Hi,

Recent systemd security updates (
systemd (232-25+deb9u8) stretch-security; urgency=high,
systemd (232-25+deb9u7) stretch-security; urgency=high)
require a system reboot to take effect, but the
unattended-upgrades did not tell the user to reboot
(or auto-reboot).

Apparently /var/run/reboot-required is touched to by
debian packages to provide notification when an update
of the package requires a system reboot to take effect.
https://sources.debian.org/src/unattended-upgrades/1.9/unattended-upgrade/#L83

"The Internet" says that it is the postinst script which
is supposed to touch /var/run/reboot-required when a reboot
is required.

If Debian supports user notification when reboot is required
(or automatic rebooting) after automatic upgrade then there
should be some consistent standard.  And that standard
should be documented.  Someplace.

I don't suppose that there are many packages which require
a reboot to take effect after update, but they are the
important packages.  The kernel and libc6 packages
trigger reboot notification, but systemd does not.

I don't see anything in either debian-policy or
the new maintainers guide.  (I'm looking at the versions
on debian.net, which I presume are up-to-date.)

Regards,
Karl


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.6
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

debian-policy depends on no packages.

debian-policy recommends no packages.

Versions of packages debian-policy suggests:
pn  doc-base  <none>

-- no debconf information

--- End Message ---
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Source: debian-policy
Source-Version: 4.4.1.0

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
debian-policy, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 919507@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> (supplier of updated debian-policy package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)


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Format: 1.8
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2019 11:11:49 -0700
Source: debian-policy
Architecture: source
Version: 4.4.1.0
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Policy Editors <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
Closes: 688481 910783 919507 931975
Changes:
 debian-policy (4.4.1.0) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Policy: Only one Vcs-<type> field is permitted
     Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
     Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
     Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
     Closes: #931975
   * Policy: Document /run/reboot-required mechanism
     Wording: Karl O. Pinc <kop@meme.com>
     Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
     Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
     Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
     Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
     Closes: #919507
   * Policy: doc-base now optional, not recommended
     Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
     Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
     Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
     Closes: #910783
   * Copyright format: state syntactical restrictions on Files: field
     Wording: Nicolas Boulenguez <nicolas@debian.org>
     Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
     Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
     Closes: #688481
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Files:
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