[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#642044: Bug#642044: Suggests reboot when restarting nm-applet would suffice

[Michael Biebl]

Am 19.09.2011 12:31, schrieb Michael Biebl:

>> nm-applet worked perfectly, without requiring a reboot.
>>
>> Please consider adding a mechanism to support rebootless upgrades.
>>
> 
> This is the best that can be done imho. 

Let me rephrase that: It's better then doing nothing and expecting the average
user to read the changelog and understand why nm-applet stopped working, and to
kill and restart nm-applet themselves. For plasma-widget-networkmanagement (the
KDE frontend) it is even more complicated and what triggered the addition of
this notification [1].

So, I'm willing to review patches which implement the automatic reloading for
both nm-applet and pnm in a clean way but I won't work on that myself.

The alternative would be, as said, if update-notifier supported a
restart-your-session notification, which could be more generally useful.
An effort would probably be better spent there.


Michael

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=640817

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