On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 04:25:06PM +0200, Tim Stoop wrote: > Package: samba > Version: 3.0.24-6etch10 > Severity: wishlist
> The initscripts for both samba and winbind are not LSB compliant because > they miss the 'status' option. Please provide the 'status' option in the > initscripts. This is indeed most definitely a wishlist. There is no requirement or expectation that Debian init scripts comply with the LSB init script policy, which is targeted at the init scripts of LSB *packages*, not LSB implementations; and Debian packages are most definitely not LSB packages. > In particular I'm running into this problem when trying to create a > Samba failover setup: Heartbeat 2 requires the status option. I don't think this is a reasonable expectation of heartbeat on a Debian system and believe this should be regarded as a bug if the Debian heartbeat package does this. > More info about LSB compliant initscripts: > <http://www.linuxfoundation.org/spec/refspecs/LSB_3.0.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/iniscrptact.html> That's interesting, I certainly don't remember the LSB init script section reading like an exact clone of Debian policy with an added mandatory "status" option... I wonder when that happened? :) Note that the LSB also specifies meanings for various non-zero return values for init scripts for actions other than status. The vast majority of Debian init scripts do not comply with this, as they simply forward on the exit value of whatever command failed, which may be of an arbitrary, service-defined value. So I really don't believe we should be trying to pick init scripts off one-by-one with bugs asking to add the LSB status option when this is not part of Debian policy; we should reach a consensus about whether this is something that Debian should support, and get it added explicitly to policy on its own merits. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
