The latest version of the Debian Policy Manual has made the use of
invoke-rc.d mandatory, if that command exists. Directly calling an
/etc/init.d script in maintainer scripts is no longer allowed, unless
invoke-rc.d doesn't exist on the system. See section 9.3.3.2.[1]
[1]
http://www.us.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#s9.3.3.2
There is a lintian check for this, or will be in the next version.
Previously the use of invoke-rc.d was only strongly recommended. That
was enough, however, to make sure that most packages that have init.d
scripts use them via invoke-rc.d.
The policy change has made a number of packages buggy. I have used the
attached script to find such packages, and then analyzed the results
manually, and come up with the list of problematic packages below. I've
also checked that the packages don't already have open bugs about this;
I may have missed some, in which case please forgive me and point out
the error.
I propose to file bugs against the packages before the end of this week,
and, after a couple of weeks, for packages that haven't been fixed
already, start making NMUs (via DELAYED/7, since they're not RC) to get
the packages fixed.
The bug reports will have the following text (modulo any changes -devel
suggests):
As of Debian Policy Manual version 3.7.2, the use of invoke-rc.d to
run init.d scripts has been made mandatory. Earlier, its use was
strongly recommended.
In most cases the fix should be simple, replace this:
/etc/init.d/package <action>
with this:
if which invoke-rc.d >/dev/null 2>&1; then
invoke-rc.d package <action>
else
/etc/init.d/package <action>
fi
On May 13 and 14, I checked all packages in Debian sid, and found
that your package needs to be changed because of this policy change.
This bug is part of a mass-filing to get all such bugs fixed.
If my checking was wrong, I apologize.
Hopefully, this will mean that etch users will be able to rely on having
policy-rc.d work. Which would be nice.
Buggy packages:
Ben Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
xpilot-ng
Alan Bain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
rbootd
Mark Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
exim
Daniel Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
bricolage
KÄstutis BiliÅ«nas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
freedict
Ross Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
avahi
Ludovic Drolez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
adzapper
Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
net-acct
Khalid El Fathi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
linuxlogo
Turbo Fredriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
libroxen-imho
roxen4
tcpquota
Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
libnss-ldap
Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
xtide-data
John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
dict-bouvier
dict-gazetteer2k
dict-moby-thesaurus
Debian Firebird Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
firebird2
Debian Mono Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
xsp
Debian QA Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
eco5000
slbreflex
Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
clamav-data
Chris Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
oss-preserve
Bob Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
dict-misc
Simon Horman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
heartbeat-2
Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sauce
Sam Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
reseed
Karl E. Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
battery-stats
Tibor Koleszar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
apcd
Yoshito Komatsu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
canna-shion
Jeff Licquia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
diald
Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
ntop
Jonathan McDowell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
fidogate
Michael Meskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
quota
Millis Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
iptotal
Gergely Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
tama
Jaakko Niemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sfs
Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
nessus-core
Simon Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
towitoko
Piotr Roszatycki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
fonty
Vladimir Shakhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wdm
Preston Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sendpage
Norbert Tretkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
mailgraph
Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
genpower
jukebox-mercury
squid-prefetch
Discover Workers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
discover
James R. Van Zandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
adjtimex
tony mancill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
netsaint-statd
Sam Hocevar (Debian packages) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
gnudip
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