Should removing old kernels trigger the "reboot required" message?

[Adam Funk]

On 2017-04-07, Oliver Grawert wrote:

> hi,
> Am Freitag, den 07.04.2017, 09:10 +0100 schrieb Adam Funk:
>>  Is that harmless?  Is
>> there a good reason why the system sets the reboot files in this
>> case?
>
> while usually being harmless, the removal of the packages will run
> update-grub to re-generate the bootloader configuration, so suggesting
> a reboot to the user to make sure everything is still in order isn't a
> bad idea ...

Interesting point, but I guess it's unlikely unless the grub
configuration options have been changed too?