Do not require reboot on installation

[SurJector]

Version: network-manager_0.7~~svn20081018t105859-0ubuntu1.8.10.2_amd64.deb

In postinst there are those three lines:
# request a reboot (NM tears down interfaces on restart
# which is not the way we want to go)
/usr/share/update-notifier/notify-reboot-required

    I'm not sure I exactly understand what is meant by "tears down".
  Is it just the effect of "ifdown <if> ; ifup <if>" (breaking sockets,
  etc...) ?

   In that case reboot is much worse ! Wouldn't it be possible to
  ask the user whether (s)he prefers a reboot or a tearing
  down of the connections ?

     Thanks !

[Nicola Ferralis (feranick)]

This bug is still present in Jaunty and Karmic.

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

This is not a bug but wanted behavior. Instead of forcefully breaking connections, we're notifying (via the reboot icon in panel, or a red power icon now) that it would be a good time after upgrading NetworkManager to reboot. Nothing it forced upon the users :) If you want to restart NetworkManager alone then it will work just as well; it's just that rebooting is a sure way to know it has been restarted. Given the risk of other changes from updates, it remains a good practice.

Closing as Won't Fix. This is substancially better than breaking connection with a forceful reload of NM, and we do want to avoid asking the user for such things.