Bug#551350: arpwatch: restart option

[Stephen Kitt]

Hi Lukas,

On Tue, 11 Apr 2017 01:28:18 +0200, Lukas Schwaighofer
<lukas at schwaighofer.name> wrote:
> I recently took over maintenance of arpwatch as part of the
> pkg-security team, sorry for reviving this more than 7 years old bug.

No worries, thanks for taking up arpwatch’s maintenance!

[...]
> Instead of merging your patch I propose the following:
> * we drop the restart functionality altogether; it was introduced in
>   Debian and is not part of upstream, so this would reduce the delta
>   carried by Debian
> * we change the systemd unit file to restart arpwatch automatically if
>   it exits uncleanly
> 
> Would you be fine with that?

That sounds very sensible. What’s the situation with upstream arpwatch? Is
there an upstream now?

Regards,

Stephen
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