[Bug 2067800] Re: needrestart should avoid restarting runner-provisioner.service

[Simon Chopin]

** Also affects: needrestart (Ubuntu Oracular)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: needrestart (Ubuntu Noble)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Tags added: foundations-todo

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Title:
  needrestart should avoid restarting runner-provisioner.service

Status in needrestart package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in needrestart source package in Noble:
  New
Status in needrestart source package in Oracular:
  New

Bug description:
  On GitHub action runners, if there is an update that causes
  needrestart to restart the runner-provisioner.service, the action job
  will immediately fail.

  ```
  Restarting services...
   /etc/needrestart/restart.d/systemd-manager
   systemctl restart packagekit.service php8.3-fpm.service runner-provisioner.service systemd-journald.service systemd-networkd.service systemd-resolved.service systemd-udevd.service udisks2.service walinuxagent.service
  Terminated
  ```

  While the above shows multiple services being restarted,
  "artificially" restarting just runner-provisioner.service has shown to
  cause an immediate failure (as seen in
  https://github.com/canonical/lxd-
  ci/actions/runs/9323021640/job/25665299316?pr=178)

  ```
  + sudo systemctl restart runner-provisioner.service
  Error: Process completed with exit code 143.
  ```

  If needrestart has a way to exclude services from being restarted,
  runner-provisioner.service should be added to the list.

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