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>It would be really great if lintian could check for and warn if the >a package calls update-rc.d in its maintainer scripts with "start" >or "stop" arguments. Likewise for dh_installinit which passes >start and stop arguments to update-rc.d. >Regular expressions which could be used: > update-rc.d.*[[:space:]]start[[:space:]] > update-rc.d.*[[:space:]]stop[[:space:]] > example packages: rsync, nfs-common >This doesn't handle quoting of start or stop in the scripts, but I've >not seen any in practice on my system. >And in debian/rules: > dh_installinit.*--.*[[:space:]]start[[:space:]] > dh_installinit.*--.*[[:space:]]start[[:space:]] > example package: cron rpcbind >I can provide some explanatory text if needed. Essentially, the >update-rc.d "start" and "stop" arguments are obsoleted and replaced by >the "defaults" argument. It is no longer possible to specify start >and stop runlevel and sequence numbers; these must be provided by the >LSB header of every init script. If start and/or stop arguments are >provided, these now act as if "defaults" had been used instead, and >the extra runlevel and sequence information is discarded, and a >warning will be issued. I am willing to implement this test but could you please provide a description -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
