Source: needrestart Section: admin Priority: optional Maintainer: Patrick Matthäi Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 12), po-debconf, libmodule-find-perl Standards-Version: 4.3.0 Homepage: https://github.com/liske/needrestart Package: needrestart Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}, dpkg (>= 1.16.0), gettext-base, libintl-perl, libproc-processtable-perl, libsort-naturally-perl, libterm-readkey-perl, libmodule-find-perl, binutils, xz-utils Recommends: libpam-systemd | sysvinit-core Suggests: needrestart-session | libnotify-bin, iucode-tool Enhances: intel-microcode Description: check which daemons need to be restarted after library upgrades needrestart checks which daemons need to be restarted after library upgrades. It is inspired by checkrestart from the debian-goodies package. . Features: - supports (but does not require) systemd - binary blacklisting (i.e. display managers) - tries to detect required restarts of interpreter based daemons (supports Java, Perl, Python, Ruby) - tries to detect required restarts of containers (docker, LXC) - tries to detect pending kernel upgrades - tries to detect pending microcode upgrades for Intel CPUs - could be used as nagios check_command - fully integrated into apt/dpkg using hooks