On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 11:49:48AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > 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. >
Thanks. Same manpage: > The latest inotify-based implementation was written by Karel Zak > (k...@redhat.com). Figures. RedHat deserves whatever IBM will do to them. Reco
