On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 04:55:16PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 04:17:00PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > > > - Both libc6 and libpam0g prompted to restart services, causing them to > > get restarted twice in the same upgrade. > > Not a bug. Each of these libraries need to make sure services are restarted > for compatibility with their own set of dynamically loadable plugins on the > system. Thus, to keep the services operational during the upgrade, the > affected services must be restarted after unpack of *each* of the libraries > in question.
The net result still feels less than impressive, regardless of the technical reasons behind the two separate prompts and restarts. Thinking beyond the bounds of just what a maintainer script can do, can you think of any technical solution to avoid one or both of these restarts? - Josh Triplett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
