Bug#1110221: release-notes: Desktop restarts during upgrade

On Fri, 1 Aug 2025 13:51:36 +0100 Justin B Rye 
<[email protected]> wrote:
 > Guillermo Torres Zamora wrote:
 > > I run apt upgrade --without-new-pkgs
 > >
 > > * What was the outcome of this action?
 > > The desktop restarted at the end closing everything but I was not
 > > warned in the release notes only in the terminal itself
 > >
 > > * What outcome did you expect instead?
 > > Probably the same but with a warning in the release notes
 >
 > This doesn't match what I've seen in any of my (unofficial) tests,
 > including the one where I was specifically checking for this on a
 > default GNOME-on-Wayland setup: the old session was left running while
 > I finished tidying up after the upgrade. What desktop environment are
 > you talking about? (And what "warning" did it give in the terminal?)
 >
 > This can be triggered if you specifically tell needrestart to restart
 > processes that are usually left un-restarted, but the package
 > needrestart probably isn't even installed on your machine.
 > --
 > JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
 > sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package
 >
 >

Cinnamon desktop on Xorg and I do have install needrestart, which I 
forgot about, so it's probably that.