Package: debhelper Version: 8.0.0 Severity: wishlist LSB has some definitions about exit[1] codes for init scripts.
Note that the policy currently has a different view about exit status 5, but there have been ideas to change that[2]. In any case it would not hurt if debhelper would support the LSB exit codes. This could be done for instance by treating various exit codes as if they were 0. A package which comes with an unconfigured daemon should be returning 6 according to LSB. This currently makes postinst fail leaving the system in an undesired state. I suggest that the postinst code added by dh_installinit should not fail upon seeing exit status 6. The same could be done for exit status 5 even though this status is currently prohibited by the debian policy. Helmut [1] http://refspecs.freestandards.org/LSB_3.1.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/iniscrptact.html. [2] http://bugs.debian.org/208010 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
