Bug#941475: debian-policy: please document the /run/reboot-required thingy in the upgrade changelog
On Tue, Oct 01, 2019 at 04:21:11PM +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 01, 2019 at 07:14:08AM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
> > Hmm, this was deliberate because the additional documentation doesn't
> > require anyone to make changes to their packages.
> >
> > Could you explain why you want it in the upgrading checklist?
>
> because it's a new thing, and it helps those people that don't follow
> closely enough to know that there is a new thing. So if at some point
> any given package start to need some "reboot required" information,
> everybody who read once the checklist know that there already is a
> policy/standard for that.
This is confusing.
On one hand, packages are not supposed to require reboot,
and /run/reboot-required is not honoured.
On the other hand some packages require "reboot required" information
from other ?
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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