[Bug 1885984] [NEW] "restart required" dialog appears too frequently after being dismissed

[Ash Holland]

Public bug reported:

Whenever I run an upgrade that requires a reboot (e.g. kernel upgrade),
I get a dialog saying "Please restart the computer to begin using your
updated software" immediately after the upgrade; fair enough, I click
"restart later". *Every time*, the same dialog appears about 3 minutes
later, asking me to restart. Usually it goes away for a bit longer after
I click "restart later" for the second time, but every time I do an apt
operation it appears again.

I would suggest that, probably, three minutes is not likely to be enough
time for _anyone_ to have finished doing whatever has caused them to
press "restart later" – it's especially bad that the dialog reappears
early if you do other things with apt, since you end up having to
continually dismiss it if you're trying to fix something broken before
you reboot.

Would it be an idea to rate-limit the dialog so that it appears, at
most, once an hour or so?

** Affects: update-manager (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  "restart required" dialog appears too frequently after being dismissed

Status in update-manager package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Whenever I run an upgrade that requires a reboot (e.g. kernel
  upgrade), I get a dialog saying "Please restart the computer to begin
  using your updated software" immediately after the upgrade; fair
  enough, I click "restart later". *Every time*, the same dialog appears
  about 3 minutes later, asking me to restart. Usually it goes away for
  a bit longer after I click "restart later" for the second time, but
  every time I do an apt operation it appears again.

  I would suggest that, probably, three minutes is not likely to be
  enough time for _anyone_ to have finished doing whatever has caused
  them to press "restart later" – it's especially bad that the dialog
  reappears early if you do other things with apt, since you end up
  having to continually dismiss it if you're trying to fix something
  broken before you reboot.

  Would it be an idea to rate-limit the dialog so that it appears, at
  most, once an hour or so?

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