Comment # 24 on bug 984778 from Tony Mechelynck

(In reply to Michael Andres from comment #23)
> (In reply to Michael Andres from comment #2)
> > Unfortunately the information to 'suggest a reboot' is not tied to a
> > 'package', but to a 'patch'.
> 
> This has meanwhile changed. Since zypper-1.14.15 packages also may carry a
> reboot-needed attribute. We added the `zypper needs-rebooting` command to
> check whether the system should be rebooted. Hints have also been added to
> the commit summary and `zypper ps`.
> 
> Closing it.

Ah, nice. The highest version of zypper currently available with openSUSE Leap
15.0 is 1.14.12, I hope an upgrade will soon come around -- or if it doesn't,
it is bound to be included in openSUSE 15.1, "planned to be released in May
2019".