Comment 5 for bug 1104290

Adam, when the feature was implemented in Software Updater, I reported this bug on glibc and bug 1104289 on linux, as they were the two packages I knew of where you need to restart for an update to take effect. It hasn't been implemented in either package yet.

Since you know far more than me about this, it would be great if you could clone this bug report for any other appropriate packages -- or just comment here listing the packages. I read that dbus and linux-firmware fall into the restart-required category, but I don't know how reliable that information is. Perhaps the source archive could be grepped to see which packages create /var/run/reboot-required in their postinst. Or perhaps the best result would be for a Debian package build tool to add the line to debian/control automatically based on scanning the postinst?