Bug#181123: [PATCH 0/2] Mention try-reload and status actions

2017-02-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Control: tag 181123 pending Andreas Henriksson writes: > These patches is an attempt to finally put #181123 to rest. > It tries to strike a well balanced middle ground between existing > debian state of the archive and the LSB. The main focus has been > to atleast mention the actions where prev

Bug#181123: [PATCH 0/2] Mention try-reload and status actions

2017-01-18 Thread Felipe Sateler
On Mon, 2 Jan 2017 04:09:31 +0100 Andreas Henriksson wrote: > These patches is an attempt to finally put #181123 to rest. > > It tries to strike a well balanced middle ground between existing > debian state of the archive and the LSB. The main focus has been > to atleast mention the actions where

Bug#181123: [PATCH 0/2] Mention try-reload and status actions

2017-01-18 Thread Simon McVittie
On Mon, 02 Jan 2017 at 04:09:31 +0100, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > Andreas Henriksson (2): > Document optional try-restart init script action > Document status init script action Both patches seconded. There is of course plenty more to be done in this chapter, but let's not let the perfect be

Bug#181123:

2017-01-18 Thread Ondrej Novy
Seconded both Andreas Henriksson patches. -- Best regards Ondřej Nový Email: on...@debian.org PGP: 3D98 3C52 EB85 980C 46A5 6090 3573 1255 9D1E 064B

Bug#181123: [PATCH 2/2] Document status init script action

2017-01-01 Thread Andreas Henriksson
In LSB the status action is among the 'shall be supported' actions. In Debian there are still many init scripts which does not support the status action still to this day (see lintian catches for init.d-script-does-not-implement-optional-option status). Given we avoid creating a big number of RC b

Bug#181123: [PATCH 0/2] Mention try-reload and status actions

2017-01-01 Thread Andreas Henriksson
These patches is an attempt to finally put #181123 to rest. It tries to strike a well balanced middle ground between existing debian state of the archive and the LSB. The main focus has been to atleast mention the actions where previously left out of policy while being documented in LSB. This ent

Bug#181123: [PATCH 1/2] Document optional try-restart init script action

2017-01-01 Thread Andreas Henriksson
Add the try-restart action similar to how LSB describes it. Many init scripts in Debian still does not support this action but fortunately even LSB just documents it as optional. Fwiw, systemctl also supports try-restart action in the same fashion. --- policy.sgml | 6 +- 1 file changed, 5 in