#1152895 Plasma-login-manager should be excluded from auto services restart on updates

#1152895#5
Date:
2026-11-02 22:39:54 UTC
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Dear Debian KDE team,

after an update of the package or a related library Plasma-login is
included as defaut to be restarted immediately by tools like
"needrestart" or "checkrestart". If the user just goes with the default
it will crash the session and may result in data corruption or loss.

Other login manager like "sddm" are excluded as a default and restart is
deferred to the next startup/login, same for services that would break
the running session like "udev".

Could it be possible to apply similar logic to plasma-login and have it
excluded as the default in the aforementioned post update services
restart tools?

My apologies if the bug should be submitted to the "needrestart" or
"debien-goodies" packages, I do not know in which direction the
information is supposed to flow.

All the best, thank you for your attention and hard work.


PS: reportbug (13.2.0+nmu1) being currently broken on my system I could
not use it.