So it appears this behaviour has always been present since LSB support was patched in.
What *does* work as expected is to use the init-agnostic service(8) command rather than rc-service itself. I will look at a patch for rc-service. Mark
- Bug#1119659: openrc: rc-status always shows services as start... Mark Hindley
- Bug#1119659: openrc: rc-status always shows services as ... Frost
- Bug#1119659: openrc: rc-status always shows services... Mark Hindley
