On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 06:42:27PM +0300, Reco wrote: > This just came to my attention - buster lost "tailf" from "util-linux" > package. I have no problem defining an appropriate alias, of course. > The question is - who should I thank for this?
The stretch man page says: DESCRIPTION tailf is deprecated. It may have unfixed bugs and will be removed from util-linux in March 2017. Nowadays it's safe to use tail -f (from coreutils), in contrast to what the original documentation below says.