Bug#551350: arpwatch: restart option

[Lukas Schwaighofer]

Hi Stephen,

I recently took over maintenance of arpwatch as part of the
pkg-security team, sorry for reviving this more than 7 years old bug.

Thanks for reporting the bug regarding the restart functionality and
providing a patch. As you probably know (or knew 7 years ago), the
restart functionality only works when arpwatch is run as root. I would
like to discourage anyone from running arpwatch as root, so I'm not
really in favor of implementing nice features that only work when
running as root.


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?


Thank you
Lukas
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