On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 4:47 AM, Sean Whitton wrote: > Do you know if anyone is working on including this in the default > desktop install? If it works well, it seems like an uncontroversial > inclusion that does not depend on the debate over unattended-upgrades. > I don't know which package would need to be changed, so I'm not sure > where to look for an existing wishlist bug.
Not AFAIK. I would guess that needrestart would need to be promoted to standard priority and needrestart-session would need to be added to tasksel's task-desktop package, or to each of the task-*-desktop packages; this adds wxWidgets to the default install though. The latter would allow different desktops to add different implementations, for example if someone wrote a GNOME Shell extension to highlight windows of applications that need restarting. One important downside of needrestart/needrestart-session/systemd is that it can't automatically restart systemd user services and root systemctl can't restart user services, even via su/sudo and needrestart-session doesn't restart them AFAIK. I guess this should be fixed by needrestart-session doing restarts (or stops for RefuseManualStart=true) of user services when requested to start via the dbus call, plus adding a restart/stop button for processes corresponding to user services. Another downside of needrestart is that a lot of stuff doesn't support being restarted sanely, like dbus, display managers, networking stuff, /etc/rc.local, etc. There is a blacklist for that but it doesn't yet include rc.local (#852864): https://sources.debian.net/src/needrestart/2.11-2/ex/needrestart.conf/#L79 -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
