On Jan 03, Edward Allcutt <edw...@allcutt.me.uk> wrote: > On Tue, 3 Jan 2012, Marco d'Itri wrote: > >It does not matter, this is needed strictly for the time of the upgrade > >process. > Just how short do you expect this to be? I'm sure many of us > dist-upgrade daily and (shock! horror!) don't reboot after each > upgrade. This is only relevant for stable to stable upgrades, if you use testing or unstable then you are supposed to be able to cope with such things.
> We also don't expect existing processes to break or become > inaccessible after an upgrade. This is why you will get a debconf notice which will inform you about the needed workaround if you want to continue the upgrade and do not reboot soon after it. -- ciao, Marco
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