Bill Allombert writes: > This is confusing. > On one hand, packages are not supposed to require reboot, > and /run/reboot-required is not honoured.
You need to reboot for many reasons: - new kernel - new kernel drivers (DKMS) - new dbus - new other daemon that cannot be restarted (because it provides essential services) Not to mention that many applications don't support to continue running the old version while a new version was installed and will randomly misbehave and/or crash and/or complain. (Though for that the proper solution are offline upgrades as implemented by other operating systems.) > On the other hand some packages require "reboot required" information > from other ? It's an information for users that packages might not work properly until reboot. There is no realistic way to avoid this in Debian. Ansgar
