dbus should not require a reboot on every upgrade
Bug #399368 reported by
Nelson Elhage
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #399676: D-Bus should support safe restarts after upgrade of daemon.
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: dbus
The 'dbus' postinst script sends a reboot notification (via notify-
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I don't think it is accurate to characterize this as a duplicate of bug #399676. While it is true that solving that bug would make it possible to close this bug, they are not the same issue. My claim is that, as long as dbus does not support stateful restarts, it is still unnecessarily annoying to blindly request a reboot on every upgrade. Instead, the init script should test for specific versions where it is known to be particularly important (for e.g. security reasons) that the user upgrade soon, and only then present an annoying reboot notification.