needrestart 0.9

needrestart checks which daemons need to be restarted after library upgrades. It is inspired by checkrestart from the debian-goodies package.

needrestart supports but does not require systemd. If systemd is not available or does not return a service name needrestart uses hooks to identify the corresponding System V init script. The shipped hooks support the following package managers:

• dpkg
• rpm
• pacman

The service command is used to run the tradiditional System V init script.

Changes in 0.9

• Drop external dependency on strings command from binutils.
• Fix “uninitialized value” by apparent kernel threads. (Debian Bug#746363 by Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>)
• Read kernel version from x86 kernel boot header and handle uncompressed kernel images. (Debian Bug#746550 by Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>)
• Several small bugfixes:
  • [Interp] initial source file detection broken due using getopt instead of getopts (Debian Bug#746363 by Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>)
  • [UI] fix newlines in Debconf template
  • [UI] fix “No such file or directory” triggered by stdio (Debian Bug#746550 by Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>)
  • [Interp] Use source file instead of /proc/<pid>/exe to find package.

See also

• needrestart releases
• official Debian packages