Package: needrestart Version: 1.2-8+deb8u1 Followup-For: Bug #826044 OK, it seems like I had an issue with "btrfs scrub", which didn't want to stop. After rebooting upgrade seems to work without problem, so I does not seem to be related with needrestart. Sorry for the noise...
-- Package-specific info: needrestart output: Running kernel seems to be up-to-date. No services need to be restarted. checkrestart output: -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.6 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages needrestart depends on: ii dpkg 1.17.27 ii libmodule-find-perl 0.12-1 ii libmodule-scandeps-perl 1.16-1 ii libproc-processtable-perl 0.51-1 ii libsort-naturally-perl 1.03-1 ii libterm-readkey-perl 2.32-1+b1 ii perl 5.20.2-3+deb8u6 needrestart recommends no packages. needrestart suggests no packages. -- no debconf information