On Thu, 22 Aug 2013 09:20:32 +0200 Tollef Fog Heen <tfh...@err.no> wrote:
> > needrestart checks which daemons need to be restarted after library > > upgrades. It is inspired by checkrestart(1) from the debian-goodies > > package. It does not rely on lsof as checkrestart does. > > Why not just improve checkrestart rather than offering an alternative? checkrestart is a Python program, needrestart is a Perl program, so asking someone (who exactly, by the way?) touting an alternative to improve the original is not exactly correct in this particular case. By the way, I have always been puzzled with checkrestart being a part of the package containing a set of random tools. I mean, the discoverability of checkrestart is exactly zero, and one have to stumble on a random blog post to even know this useful tool exists. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130822115831.5da9b17fbbf3b2710ed89...@domain007.com
