Package: sysvinit-utils Version: 2.88dsf-18 Severity: important File: /usr/sbin/service
Hi, I just analyzed a piuparts failure in the mobyle package that was caused by abusing the 'service' command to restart apache (a violation of Policy 9.3.3.2 which says 'maintainer scripts must use invoke-rc.d'). The problem with 'service' is that it actually tried to start apache while piuparts had created a policy-rc.d that prevents any service from being started in the chroot. (Apache could not be started in the chroot because :80 was already in use by the host). I don't think 'service' should deviate from 'invoke-rc.d' in that case. There is also http://bugs.debian.org/377758 which asks to provide a symlink service -> update-rc.d (and was probably filed before service was shipped). piuparts log (also attached): http://piuparts.debian.org/sid/fail/mobyle_1.0.4~dfsg-2.log http://piuparts.debian.org/sid/bugged/mobyle_1.0.4~dfsg-2.log Incorrect postinst: http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debian-med/trunk/packages/mobyle/mobyle/trunk/debian/postinst?revision=7875&view=markup Should there be a lintian check for maintainer-script-uses-service-instead-of-invoke-rc.d? Andreas
mobyle_1.0.4~dfsg-2.log.gz
Description: GNU Zip compressed data
