On Fri, 04 Jul 2008, Vincent Danjean wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: > >> I'm reluctant to change the default behaviour of start-stop-daemon at this > >> point. What do other people think of making --oknodo the default behaviour > >> and adding a new option to force the current default behaviour (exit with > >> failure if nothing had to be done)? > > > > I think this sounds like there's no real transition plan between the two > > states; anything that actually relies on the current behavior of s-s-d > > without --oknodo will suddenly be broken. Changing the semantics of core > > tools in this way is a bad idea. > > Here a proposal for a transition plan:
THanks, I could come up with a transition plan myself if needed. But compare your suggestions with: "someone goes over all init scripts, file bugs and in lenny+1 we're done". (No this is not something I intend to pursue, but anyone that cares could do and would probably be granted a release goal for this) The transition would be hugely complicated for little gains since most script already do what's needed. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Le best-seller français mis à jour pour Debian Etch : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
