Package: lintian Version: 2.5.52 Severity: normal Looking at https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=Exec.*%3D%2Fetc%2Finit.d%2F there are quite a few native systemd .service file which simply use the existing SysV init script via ExecStart/ExecStop/...
We should actively discourage that. For that I suggest to add a lintian check. Finding affected packages should be as simple as running grep "Exec.*=/etc/init.d/" on the .service files. The main logic of more complex init scripts should be moved into helper scripts which can be used directly from the service file and the init script. This will also make the init scripts more readable and easier to support other alternatives like runit or openrc. -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.11.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.29-3 ii bzip2 1.0.6-8.1 ii diffstat 1.61-1+b1 ii dpkg 1.18.24 ii file 1:5.30-1 ii gettext 0.19.8.1-2+b1 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.4 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.32+b2 ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.59-1 ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1 ii libclone-perl 0.38-2+b2 ii libdigest-sha-perl 5.96-1+b3 ii libdpkg-perl 1.18.24 ii libemail-valid-perl 1.202-1 ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.07-1 ii libipc-run-perl 0.96-1 ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b3 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-12 ii libperl5.26 [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.26.0-5 ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.13-1 ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2 ii liburi-perl 1.71-1 ii libxml-simple-perl 2.24-1 ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.63-2+b2 ii man-db 2.7.6.1-2 ii patchutils 0.3.4-2 ii perl 5.26.0-5 ii t1utils 1.40-2 ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.3 Versions of packages lintian recommends: ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.19-1+b4 Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> ii dpkg-dev 1.18.24 ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-3+b2 ii libtext-template-perl 1.46-1 -- no debconf information
