How to tell if package upgrades will require rebooting?

[Adam Funk]

On 2009-04-08, Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y) wrote:

> Aart Koelewijn wrote:
>> Apart from the kernel almost everything else can be 
>> stopped and restarted without a reboot. There maybe some exceptions, but 
>> I don't know them.
>
> glibc and all wide shared libaries.

The last one to get me by surprise was libssl a few days ago.