On Aug 29, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 08:24:25AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > Debian 3.0r0 (woody), is close, but not quite, in compliance with LSB 1.2. > > The outstanding issues are: > [snip] > > Thanks for this extremely informative report. It had been my > understanding that our init system and/or runlevels were an issue as > well; is that a part of the spec we don't have to comply with for the > specific certification we are seeking? It certainly seemed the case at > DebConf that most of us believed that our init system was a stumbling > block to certification.
The main issue with init systems and runlevels was due to ambiguities in the 1.0 and 1.1 specification documents; they were resolved in the 1.2 spec to clarify that the expected behavior of init scripts and runlevels called for in the specification only applied to LSB-conformant applications, and not to LSB-conformant implementations (i.e. distributions). So (for example), there is no need for '/etc/init.d/xfs' status to work in Debian; you would, however, have to implement it if distributing LSB packages of XFree86. I'm not sure if there's an FAQ per se, but /usr/share/doc/lsb/README.Debian should cover most of the relevant issues if the package is installed. (I will update it with info from aj's very informative post.) Chris -- Chris Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.lordsutch.com/chris/ Computer Systems Manager, Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of Mississippi 125B Lewis Hall - 662-915-5765
