[Bug 1965090] [NEW] [FFe] updated needrestart (form git) for Jammy

[Christian Ehrhardt ]

Public bug reported:

Hi,
there was no new version tagged for about two years now.
But plenty of fixes that are IMHO important for Jammy have piled up.
Especially since needrestart is installed and enabled by default I'd think this makes sense to not have too many people run into known issues that we then have to SRU.

Feel free to have your own look at the commits since v3.5 - there are not too many IMHO:
- https://github.com/liske/needrestart/commits/master

In that list are a lot of non-important but also not bad things like fixing typos and updating changelogs as well as license information.
But there are also quite a list of things I'd think we want for Jammy, those are:

Fixes:
- fix dysfunctional config option https://github.com/liske/needrestart/pull/197
- avoid breaking bluetooth https://github.com/liske/needrestart/pull/209
- avoid parsing filed not meant to be used https://github.com/liske/needrestart/pull/200

Jammy compatibility
- work with new LXD
  - https://github.com/liske/needrestart/pull/188
  - https://github.com/liske/needrestart/pull/215
- compatibility with cgroup v2 (now default)
  - https://github.com/liske/needrestart/pull/238
  - https://github.com/liske/needrestart/pull/234

Useful features several people always wanted
- VM detection https://github.com/liske/needrestart/pull/216

I'm proposing to update needrestart to master
(https://github.com/liske/needrestart/commits/master) and for that would
want the ack of the release team (for the FFe) and if possible also the
Foundations-team POV ack as they officially own the package.

** Affects: needrestart (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  [FFe] updated needrestart (form git) for Jammy

Status in needrestart package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Hi,
  there was no new version tagged for about two years now.
  But plenty of fixes that are IMHO important for Jammy have piled up.
  Especially since needrestart is installed and enabled by default I'd think this makes sense to not have too many people run into known issues that we then have to SRU.

  Feel free to have your own look at the commits since v3.5 - there are not too many IMHO:
  - https://github.com/liske/needrestart/commits/master

  In that list are a lot of non-important but also not bad things like fixing typos and updating changelogs as well as license information.
  But there are also quite a list of things I'd think we want for Jammy, those are:

  Fixes:
  - fix dysfunctional config option https://github.com/liske/needrestart/pull/197
  - avoid breaking bluetooth https://github.com/liske/needrestart/pull/209
  - avoid parsing filed not meant to be used https://github.com/liske/needrestart/pull/200

  Jammy compatibility
  - work with new LXD
    - https://github.com/liske/needrestart/pull/188
    - https://github.com/liske/needrestart/pull/215
  - compatibility with cgroup v2 (now default)
    - https://github.com/liske/needrestart/pull/238
    - https://github.com/liske/needrestart/pull/234

  Useful features several people always wanted
  - VM detection https://github.com/liske/needrestart/pull/216

  I'm proposing to update needrestart to master
  (https://github.com/liske/needrestart/commits/master) and for that
  would want the ack of the release team (for the FFe) and if possible
  also the Foundations-team POV ack as they officially own the package.

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