[Bug 244250] Re: Spurious reboot notifications caused by libssl upgrades.

[Marc Deslauriers]

Actually, we do want a reboot notification when we issue security
updates. When we issue security updates, we don't enter the major
upgrade section, as we don't want the update to automatically restart
services, but we do want the sysadmin to perform a planned
reboot/service restart as the running services will be using a
vulnerable openssl.

I'm upload a fix to move the notification to the upgrade section instead
of the major upgrade section.

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Title:
  Spurious reboot notifications caused by libssl upgrades.

Status in “openssl” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  The postinst script for libssl0.9.8 currently has a bug where it sends
  a reboot notifcation whenever libssl is configured.  So reconfiguring
  libssl0.9.8 or even just installing libssl0.9.8 will result in a
  reboot notification.  Sending of the reboot notification should
  definitely be moved inside the upgrading guard.  The correct fix is
  likely to move it inside a version comparison guard for particular
  important updates like Colin suggests below -- this is what every
  other standard package using notify-reboot-required does.

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