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

On Sat, Aug 02, 2025 at 02:58:19PM +0100, Richard Lewis wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Aug 2025, 16:31 Guillermo Torres Zamora, <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 1 Aug 2025 13:51:36 +0100 Justin B Rye
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >  > Guillermo Torres Zamora wrote:
> >
> >  > 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.
> >
> 
> 
> Cinnamon desktop on Xorg and I do have install needrestart, which I
> > forgot about, so it's probably that.
> >
> 
> should the release-notes tell people to do something to needrestart to
> prevent this happening?  or is this a bug in needsrestart?

needrestart in the default config prompts what should be restarted. 
I doubt intended behaviour of needrestart qualifies as a bug, and 
it's users need to remember they have it.

Chris