[Evolution] Bug#875247: evolution-data-server: is a system reboot really required for every package update?

[Julian Gilbey]

Package: evolution-data-server
Version: 3.24.5-6
Severity: normal

Hello!

I was just informed that my system needs a reboot because the
evolution-data-server package has been updated.  Looking at the
postinst script, I see that the reboot notifier is called
on every package update.

Is it *really* the case that *every* update of the
evolution-data-server requires a full system reboot?  If not, then the
reboot notification should be made only on updates which actually
require it.

Best wishes,

   Julian

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers stretch
  APT policy: (500, 'stretch'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.12.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages evolution-data-server depends on:
ii  evolution-data-server-common  3.24.5-6
ii  gnome-keyring                 3.20.1-1
ii  libc6                         2.24-17
ii  libcamel-1.2-60               3.24.5-6
ii  libdb5.3                      5.3.28-13.1
ii  libebackend-1.2-10            3.24.5-6
ii  libebook-1.2-19               3.24.5-6
ii  libebook-contacts-1.2-2       3.24.5-6
ii  libecal-1.2-19                3.24.5-6
ii  libedata-book-1.2-25          3.24.5-6
ii  libedata-cal-1.2-28           3.24.5-6
ii  libedataserver-1.2-22         3.24.5-6
ii  libgcr-base-3-1               3.20.0-5.1
ii  libgcr-ui-3-1                 3.20.0-5.1
ii  libgdata22                    0.17.9-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.53.6-1
ii  libgoa-1.0-0b                 3.25.90-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                    3.22.19-1
ii  libgweather-3-6               3.25.91-1
ii  libical2                      2.0.0-0.5+b1
ii  libldap-2.4-2                 2.4.45+dfsg-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0                1.40.11-1
ii  libsecret-1-0                 0.18.5-3.1
ii  libsoup2.4-1                  2.56.1-1
ii  libxml2                       2.9.4+dfsg1-4

evolution-data-server recommends no packages.

Versions of packages evolution-data-server suggests:
ii  evolution  3.24.5-3

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