Bug#781467: Mention needrestart in Security section

2015-03-29 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Package: release-notes
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

Hi,

Please see attached patch to mention the needrestart package in the Security
section.


Cheers,
Thijs


needrestart.patch
Description: inode/empty


Bug#781467: Mention needrestart in Security section

2015-03-29 Thread Niels Thykier
Control: tags -1 pending

On 2015-03-29 19:13, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
 Package: release-notes
 Severity: wishlist
 Tags: patch
 
 Hi,
 
 Please see attached patch to mention the needrestart package in the Security
 section.
 
 
 Cheers,
 Thijs
 

Thanks,

With Justin Rye's help, I reworded it slightly (see attached patch) and
applied that.

~Niels


From f73dc9e49f8aaa925636d27f4b8972f97c91c8db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: nthykier nthykier@313b444b-1b9f-4f58-a734-7bb04f332e8d
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2015 19:35:40 +
Subject: [PATCH] Recommend needrestart package in whats-new/security
 (#781467)

Initial-wording-by: Thijs Kinkhorst th...@debian.org
Review-by: Justin B. Rye justin.byam@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Niels Thykier ni...@thykier.net

git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/ddp/manuals/trunk/release-notes@10680 313b444b-1b9f-4f58-a734-7bb04f332e8d
---
 en/whats-new.dbk | 10 ++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/en/whats-new.dbk b/en/whats-new.dbk
index 39f6801..0d41eb8 100644
--- a/en/whats-new.dbk
+++ b/en/whats-new.dbk
@@ -480,6 +480,16 @@ TODO: Need to include stuff from lt;5447ec14.2070...@debian.orggt;
   systemitem role=packagehardening-wrapper/systemitem can
   provide a systemitemgcc/systemitem with these flags enabled.
   /para
+
+  paraNew in this release is the systemitem
+  role=packageneedrestart/systemitem package.  When installed, it
+  will perform a check after each APT upgrade session.  If any
+  services running on the system require a restart to take advantage
+  of changes in the upgraded packages then it offers to perform these
+  restarts.  It is recommended to install systemitem
+  role=packageneedrestart/systemitem to ensure that security
+  updates in libraries are propagated to running services.
+  /para
 /section
 section id=mariadb
   titleMariaDB next to MySQL/title
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