David Härdeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Package: lintian > Version: 1.23.25 > Severity: wishlist
> Now that lintian checks for LSB boot dependency headers in init.d scripts, > it would be nice if it could also check whether the script(s) use the LSB > logging functions to generate messages. > Looking for lines containing "echo" might be a sufficient check... I'm not at all convinced that using the LSB logging functions is even a good idea, let alone someting lintian should be diagnosing, until the quality of messages omitted using them is up to what could be done before. Right now, switching to the LSB logging functions results in a significant loss of readability and clarity for failure messages. If you feel this is important, I'd encourage you to work on improving those logging functions so that they can provide multi-line help text for errors, handle whitespace properly when reporting errors in daemon startup so that words aren't mashed together without line breaks or spaces, and otherwise make the output look a bit less horrible for anything other than normal startup. Partly this is my fault since I've not filed specific bugs against the lsb package. Most of the problems are fairly apparent, though. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
