[Bug 1968919] [NEW] Spurious needrestart runs on do-release-upgrade

[Robie Basak]

Public bug reported:

Expected behaviour: no unnecessary prompts during do-release-upgrade
Actual behaviour: needrestart prompts during do-release-upgrade

Steps to reproduce:
lxc launch ubuntu:focal reproducer
lxc exec reproducer bash
apt-get update && apt-get -y upgrade  # needrestart prompts, but that's expected
do-release-upgrade -d  # needrestart prompts in the middle of this, and that's unexpected

do-release-upgrade recommends a system reboot after the upgrade is
complete. So it's unnecessary to run needrestart and prompt the user for
restarts while the upgrade is running.

** Affects: needrestart (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: rls-jj-incoming

** Tags added: rls-jj-incoming

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Title:
  Spurious needrestart runs on do-release-upgrade

Status in needrestart package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Expected behaviour: no unnecessary prompts during do-release-upgrade
  Actual behaviour: needrestart prompts during do-release-upgrade

  Steps to reproduce:
  lxc launch ubuntu:focal reproducer
  lxc exec reproducer bash
  apt-get update && apt-get -y upgrade  # needrestart prompts, but that's expected
  do-release-upgrade -d  # needrestart prompts in the middle of this, and that's unexpected

  do-release-upgrade recommends a system reboot after the upgrade is
  complete. So it's unnecessary to run needrestart and prompt the user
  for restarts while the upgrade is running.

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