Bug#548336: restart gnome on squeeze2wheezy upgrades?

[Javier Fernandez-Sanguino]

On 29 April 2013 11:31, Holger Levsen <holger at layer-acht.org> wrote:

> is it desirable to restart gnome on squeeze2wheezy upgrades, like it was
> for
> lenny2squeeze upgrades?
>

I'm not sure it is desirable, the GNOME team should speak up about this.

On the other hand: currently the Release Notes say that the a system reboot
should be done after the a new kernel is installed. For some systems this
would be done after a minimal upgrade (i.e. running 'apt-get upgrade' but
not 'dist-upgrade') and for others this would happen after the
dist-upgrade, this depends on what the sysadmin prefers.

Maybe we could just say in the Release Notes that a system reboot is
recommended (in non-critical systems) right after the full system is
completely upgraded to confirm that the system boots up properly, all the
services start up as needed and no errors are presented in the boot
process. This would cover both the GNOME case (if it is desirable) and
others, but maybe it is too drastic.

Else, we should document this as requested by this bug. Patches welcome.
>

Please bear in mind that translators are actively working now in the
Release Notes, if a patch is required, please send it as soon as possible
so translators have time before the release to update their translations
too.

Best regards

Javier
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-gnome-maintainers/attachments/20130429/4cd335a2/attachment.html>