On 8 Jan 2015 01:11, "Peter Eisentraut" <pet...@debian.org> wrote: > > On 10/8/14 6:50 PM, Felipe Sateler wrote: > > Package: ntp > > Version: 1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-3.1 > > Severity: normal > > > > The ntp init script has this check: > > > > test -x $DAEMON || exit 5 > > That is the LSB exit code, but I guess that practice never really caught on. >
Sysvinit never checked scripts return status, so no wonder it didn't catch on. > > Which means that if ntp has been removed but not purged, the ntp script > > will fail at boot. With systemd actually checking the return code of > > init scripts, this results in the system being flagged as not correctly > > booted. > > Hmm, is that something that should be fixed in jessie then? Not sure if a fix would be acceptable now. You'd have to ask the release team, but given the late date and the minority of the bug I wouldn't have high hopes. > > (Other packages might be affected.) Probably, but ntp happened to be installed on my computer ;)
