Package: lintian Version: 2.5.14 Severity: normal Hi,
As you're undoubtedly aware, we've been using LSB headers in place of static sequence numbers for a good couple of releases now. With wheezy, we migrated completely away from static ordering to dynamic ordering. This means that the "start nn n n" and "stop nn n n" parameters are now essentially pointless--update-rc.d has long ignored them when dependency-based boot was in use. For wheezy in practice it will always ignore them since dependency-based boot is required. In jessie we removed start and stop entirely; they still exist internally, but are just aliases for "defaults", and issue a warning if used; all runlevel information is obtained from the LSB headers. It would be really great if lintian could check for and warn if the a package calls update-rc.d in its maintainer scripts with "start" or "stop" arguments. Likewise for dh_installinit which passes start and stop arguments to update-rc.d. Regular expressions which could be used: update-rc.d.*[[:space:]]start[[:space:]] update-rc.d.*[[:space:]]stop[[:space:]] example packages: rsync, nfs-common This doesn't handle quoting of start or stop in the scripts, but I've not seen any in practice on my system. And in debian/rules: dh_installinit.*--.*[[:space:]]start[[:space:]] dh_installinit.*--.*[[:space:]]start[[:space:]] example package: cron rpcbind I can provide some explanatory text if needed. Essentially, the update-rc.d "start" and "stop" arguments are obsoleted and replaced by the "defaults" argument. It is no longer possible to specify start and stop runlevel and sequence numbers; these must be provided by the LSB header of every init script. If start and/or stop arguments are provided, these now act as if "defaults" had been used instead, and the extra runlevel and sequence information is discarded, and a warning will be issued. If there are checks for LSB init script headers, and it's not already a hard requirement to provide an LSB header, this is a fatal error, since update-rc.d requires all scripts to have a header. Many thanks, Roger -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (550, 'unstable'), (400, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.8-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.23.52.20130620-1 ii bzip2 1.0.6-4 ii diffstat 1.55-3 ii file 1:5.14-2 ii gettext 0.18.3-1 ii hardening-includes 2.3 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.29 ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.30-7 ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1 ii libclone-perl 0.34-1 ii libdigest-sha-perl 5.85-1 ii libdpkg-perl 1.16.10 ii libemail-valid-perl 0.190-1 ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.03-1 ii libipc-run-perl 0.92-1 ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.33-1+b1 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-1 ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.06~01-2 ii libtimedate-perl 1.2000-1 ii liburi-perl 1.60-1 ii man-db 2.6.5-2 ii patchutils 0.3.2-2 ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.14.2-21 ii t1utils 1.37-2 Versions of packages lintian recommends: ii libautodie-perl 2.20-1 ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.18-1+b2 ii perl-modules [libautodie-perl] 5.14.2-21 Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> ii dpkg-dev 1.16.10 ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.71-1 ii libtext-template-perl 1.45-2 ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
