[Bug 244250] Re: Spurious reboot notifications caused by libssl upgrades.

[Adrien Nader]

The reason I want to remove the code is that it wasn't meant for
Desktop. It works on Desktop when using wayland but this is was
definitely not the intent back then. As I say in
https://code.launchpad.net/~adrien/ubuntu/+source/openssl/+git/openssl/+merge/466581
, I don't think the postinst can be fixed due the behavior not having
been specified: you can't fix something if the intent is unknown.

I am saddened that needrestart is not on desktop machines but on the
other hand, the code has probably never really worked fine for the past
10 or 15 years. It's not like we would be removing something that works
in favor of something that isn't ready.

By the way, I run a server install on my laptop unfortunately so I
experience the needrestart path. That being said, I've only heard
complaints about the current postinst.

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Title:
  Spurious reboot notifications caused by libssl upgrades.

Status in openssl package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  The postinst script for libssl0.9.8 currently has a bug where it sends
  a reboot notifcation whenever libssl is configured.  So reconfiguring
  libssl0.9.8 or even just installing libssl0.9.8 will result in a
  reboot notification.  Sending of the reboot notification should
  definitely be moved inside the upgrading guard.  The correct fix is
  likely to move it inside a version comparison guard for particular
  important updates like Colin suggests below -- this is what every
  other standard package using notify-reboot-required does.

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