Hello folks, Part of the new init.d-script-call-internal-API tag appears to be either incorrect or premature:
Russ Allbery <[email protected]> writes: > The new init.d-script-call-internal-API tag says: > W: libapache2-mod-shib2: init.d-script-call-internal-API etc/init.d/shibd > N: > N: The given init script call an internal API under /lib/init. /lib/init/rw > N: has gone away, and the scripts in /lib/init/*.sh represent internal > N: implementation details of initscripts. They are not public API for other > N: packages to use. Nonetheless, some packages incorrectly reference those > N: scripts, notably /lib/init/vars.sh. > N: > N: Severity: normal, Certainty: possible > N: > N: Check: init.d, Type: binary > but /etc/init.d/skeleton has: > # Load the VERBOSE setting and other rcS variables > . /lib/init/vars.sh > and then uses $VERBOSE extensively, and I don't see any other way for it > to be set. This is inconsistent; if what skeleton is doing is wrong, then > that file needs to be updated and we need to provide better guidance in > the Lintian tag as to how $VERBOSE is supposed to be handled. Which is wrong here: the tag or /etc/init.d/skeleton? Is there a plan to update skeleton to some other style of init script writing? -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
