needrestart

Upstream patches for Debian Jessie package 1.2-6, inlcudes:

• 01-add-conf.d-directory: support conf.d directory (Closes: #764043)
• 02-regression-commands-in-list-mode: fix a regression in list mode (Closes: #764042)
• 03-fix-empty-kernel-version-string fix displaying the running kernel version (Closes: #764917)
• 04-prefer-services-over-rc.d: prevent restarting services twice
• 05-dont-blacklist-services: add support for the new override_rc option and does not automatic restart services (Closes: #763937)
• 06-fix-version-number-string; fix the reported version number
• 07-fix-warnings-without-tty: fix Perl warnings, if no TTY is available (Closes: #768124)
• 08-fix-broken-debconf: fix a debconf hang up if no kernel image is available (Closes: #767370)
• 09-add-some-overrides: prevent automatic restarts of gettys and mythtv-backend
• 10-respect-override-auto: do not restart services with overrides in auto mode (Closes #770937)
• 11-systemd-journald-workaround to add systemd-journald to override_rc as a workaround tue to #771122 (Closes: #771254)
• 12-ignore-systemd-user-sessions: ignore user sessions (Closes: #771348)
• 13-falsepos-aio-fix: skip POSIX async I/O mappings to prevent false positive restarts
• 14-wpa_supplicant-override: ignore wpa_supplicant

• Prepare po-debconf usage and add German translation (Debian Bug#761068 by David Prévot <[email protected]>).
• Drop dependency on Term::ProgressBar::Simple (Debian Bug#761192 by Thijs Kinkhorst <[email protected]>).
• Fix blacklist to match upgraded binaries (dpkg) (Debian Bug#761346 by Paul Wise <[email protected]>).
• Fix detection of unit names on systemd 215+ (Debian Bug#762312 by Sven Hartge <[email protected]>).
• Ignore special paths (SYSV IPC, DRM, /dev), fixing some false positives.
• Add service blacklist configuration option to fix display manager blacklisting with systemd.
• Handle restarts of systemd manager and sysv init using their specific commands (Debian Bug#762528 by Paul Wise <[email protected]>).

ChangeLog:

• Ignore DHCP clients (Debian Bug#752111 by Axel Beckert <[email protected]>).
• Add options allowing to select which check should be performed (proposed by Axel Beckert <[email protected]>).

ChangeLog:

• Fix grammar errors and use a additional debconf template (Debian Bug#748652 by Justin B Rye <[email protected]>).
• Ignore device ID in /proc/<pid>/maps on kFreeBSD (Reported by Axel Beckert <[email protected]>).
• Ignore device ID for unnamed devices due to broken implementation on btrfs (Debian Bug#750734 by Frederik Himpe <[email protected]>).
• Skip scanning of needrestart process (Debian Bug#751877 by Thijs Kinkhorst <[email protected]>).
• [UI] Drop UI specific progress indicators, use Term::ProgressBar::Simple to minimize disruption of the terminal (Debian Bug#748758 by Thijs Kinkhorst <[email protected]>).
• [UI] Support 'backup' capability of Debconf.
• [Interp] Fix include path retrieval on python3 (Debian Bug#750589 by Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <[email protected]>).
• [Interp] Handle errors on python include path retrieval gracefully (Debian Bug#750589 by Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <[email protected]>).

ChangeLog:

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

ChangeLog:

• Fix non-numeric argument on progress_prep call.
  (Debian Bug#744961 by Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
  [email protected])
• Feature: interpreter support enables needrestart to look for obsolete
  source files in scripting languages:
  • Perl: using Module::ScanDeps
  • Python: using home made source file scanning
  • Ruby: using home made source file scanning
• Feature: detect running on obsolete kernels
  (Debian Bug#745270 by Paul Wise [email protected])
• NeedRestart::UI::Dialog: has been dropped
• NeedRestart::UI::stdio: add mass processing
• Several small bugfixes.

ChangeLog:

• Improved rc script detection, e.g.: previous releases failed to
  detect apache2's init script after upgrading libssl1.0.0.
• Handle Linux VServer naming convention on deleted binaries.
  (Thanks to Phillip Berndt [@phillipberndt])
• Support GNU formatted device ids.
  (github issue #1 by Phillip Berndt [@phillipberndt])
• Hooks: Use only available package managers.
• Hooks: Ignore hooks not returning any rc scripts
  (fixes detecting apache2's rc script).
• Hooks: Prefer rc scripts w/ matching pid
  (fixes calling unnecessary rc scripts like libvirt-guests).
• Improve rc script detection by using a two pass
  analysis.
• Fallback to NeedRestart::UI::stdio while being verbose.
  (Debian Bug#744000 by Paul Wise [email protected])
• Add default UI configuration option.
  (Debian Bug#744001 by Paul Wise [email protected])
• Apply blacklist while processing parent processes.
  (Debian Bug#744002 by Paul Wise [email protected])
• Apply Debian's 01-makefile-fix.diff upstream.

ChangeLog:

• Add lightdm to blacklist (Debian Bug#735027 by Michael Gilbert [email protected]).
• Print eval exception message on config file errors.
• Use systemd if available (Debian Bug#731028 by Paul Wise [email protected]).
• Use service to run traditional SysV scripts.
• Change batch processing output.
• Print full restart commands in list mode (Debian Bug#731028 by Paul Wise [email protected]).

ChangeLog:

• Ignore mapped files in /tmp.
• Handle LSB tags case insensitivly (Debian Bug#731165 by Christian Ionescu-Idbohrn [email protected]).
• Prevent config file in dpkg.cfg.d to break dpkg after removing needrestart (Debian Bug#732461 by Andreas Beckmann [email protected]).

ChangeLog:

• Fix spelling:
  • typo in debconf template (s/restartet/restarted/;)
    (Debian Bug#723935 by Axel Beckert [email protected])
  • debconf template title (s/orphaned/outdated/;)
    (Debian Bug#723935 by Justin B Rye [email protected])
• Fix progress bar increase to grow up to 100%:
  • binaries were counted twice
  • kernel threads did not increase progress
• Demand restart of deleted binaries.
• Add sudo binary to example blacklist.
  (Debian Bug#725937 by Jim Barber [email protected])
• Drop version number from man page.
  (Debian Bug#729997 by Raf Czlonka [email protected])
• NeedRestart::UI::Debconf: Fix return code handling if readline
  is used as debconf frontend.
  (Debian Bug#729997 by Raf Czlonka [email protected])

ChangeLog:

• Fix typo reported by Patrick Matthäi.
• Add man page provided by Patrick Matthäi (Debian).
• Offer restart on non-existing mappings.
• Add PacMan hook.
• Be more fault-tolerant in batch mode.
• Provide a more sophisticated apt/dpkg trigger.
• Fix ignored -r command line parameter.
  (Debian Bug#721809 by Axel Beckert [email protected])
• Ignore forked/detached daemon childs (pidfile heuristic).
  (Debian Bug#721810 by Axel Beckert [email protected])
• Provide modular UI including debconf and dialog based
  frontends.
• Ignore binaries due blacklist config option.

ChangeLog:

• Support (l)ist only, (i)nteractive restart and
  (a)utomaticly restart modes.
• Supply apt.conf.d script to call needrestart on every upgrade.
• Drop dependency on (Debian's) run-parts.
• Drop Term::Query dependency.
• Ignore rc scripts to be run in other run-levels.
• Add batch mode.

ChangeLog:

• Initial release.