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--- Begin Message ---Package: debian-policy Version: 3.5.2.0 Severity: wishlist This proposal has ties to #76868 (invoke-rc.d), #60979 (what /etc/init.d/xxx restart does?). "Action" in the text below is the *first* parameter specified for an init script (e.g.: in /etc/init.d/foo start, "start" is the action). The naming for the new 'initscript action' was discussed in #76868, before it was split from the main proposal of invoke-rc.d. I propose that a new init script action, 'restart-if-running', defined as: IFF daemon-is-running-NOW then stop daemon start daemon return OK exit status if daemon started, otherwise return ERROR else return OK exit status to be defined in policy, as *OPTIONAL*. The main reason for such definition is that we currently lack the functionality provided by 'restart-if-running', and it cannot be easily (as in not in an error-prone way) emulated through other methods. I'd also like us to better define init scripts, by making it forbidden to have initscripts in Debian that: 1. Act in a non-expected way for any of the actions defined in policy (e.g.: stopping a daemon in the 'start' action) 2. Misbehaves if given an unknown action (e.g.: running the 'start' action regardless of what is passed to it as the first argument -- we have some stuff in rcS.d that has this problem, and yes, I am offering myself to hunt the offending parties down, fix them, send patches to the BTS, and NMU if the maintainer is too busy to apply the patch and upload). This should be read as: the initscript should return an non-zero status code if called with an unknown/unsupported action. -- System Information Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux godzillah.rivendell.sol 2.2.19pre16 #1 Tue Feb 27 21:55:56 BRT 2001 i586 Versions of packages debian-policy depends on: ii fileutils 4.0.37-1 GNU file management utilities. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh
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--- Begin Message ---Source: debian-policy Source-Version: 4.0.0.0 We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of debian-policy, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive. A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is attached. Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you have further comments please address them to [email protected], and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Russ Allbery <[email protected]> (supplier of updated debian-policy package) (This message was generated automatically at their request; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing [email protected]) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 28 May 2017 12:27:07 -0700 Source: debian-policy Binary: debian-policy Architecture: source Version: 4.0.0.0 Distribution: experimental Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Policy List <[email protected]> Changed-By: Russ Allbery <[email protected]> Description: debian-policy - Debian Policy Manual and related documents Closes: 175064 181123 568374 688220 698012 700532 734662 746514 759186 759492 768117 768292 781654 792853 793493 793999 794902 798309 809382 816249 816515 819660 820197 821365 821859 822059 823348 823910 824922 829367 830989 833177 835490 835876 841877 849483 850646 852314 Changes: debian-policy (4.0.0.0) experimental; urgency=low . [ Andreas Barth ] * Policy: Add the MPLs to /usr/share/common-licenses Wording: Charles Plessy <[email protected]> Seconded: Russ Allbery <[email protected]> Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin <[email protected]> Closes: #768292 * Policy: [5.6.12] forbid colons in package version numbers Wording: Charles Plessy <[email protected]> Seconded: Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <[email protected]> Seconded: Sam Hartman <[email protected]> Thanks: Jakub Wilk <[email protected]> Closes: #792853 * Policy: [4.3] Update config.guess and config.sub during the build Wording: Bill Allombert <[email protected]> Seconded: Niels Thykier <[email protected]> Seconded: Andreas Barth <[email protected]> Closes: #746514 * Spelling fixes, thanks to Martin A. Brown. Closes: #820197 . [ Russ Allbery ] * Policy: [10.9] Don't contact base-passwd maintainer for dynamic users Wording: Colin Watson <[email protected]> Seconded: Russ Allbery <[email protected]> Seconded: Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <[email protected]> Seconded: gregor herrmann <[email protected]> Closes: #841877 * Policy: Document Build-Depends-Arch and Build-Conflicts-Arch Wording: Johannes Schauer <[email protected]> Seconded: Stuart Prescott <[email protected]> Seconded: Russ Allbery <[email protected]> Closes: #823910 * Policy: Add nodoc tag to DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS Wording: Russ Allbery <[email protected]> Seconded: Johannes Schauer <[email protected]> Seconded: Charles Plessy <[email protected]> Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin <[email protected]> Closes: #759186 * Policy: Prohibit file conflicts between /bin and /usr/bin Wording: Ansgar Burchardt <[email protected]> Wording: Russ Allbery <[email protected]> Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <[email protected]> Seconded: Felipe Sateler <[email protected]> Closes: #759492 * Policy: Debug packages don't need a debian/control paragraph Wording: Tanguy Ortolo <[email protected]> Seconded: Russ Allbery <[email protected]> Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <[email protected]> Closes: #819660 * Policy: New dpkg-architecture flags Wording: Guillem Jover <[email protected]> Seconded: Russ Allbery <[email protected]> Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <[email protected]> Closes: #793493 * Policy: Remove even the fallback to calling /etc/init.d directly Wording: Ondřej Nový <[email protected]> Seconded: Michael Stapelberg <[email protected]> Seconded: Andreas Henriksson <[email protected]> Closes: #833177 * Policy: Limit strength of dependencies on -doc packages Wording: Josh Triplett <[email protected]> Seconded: Russ Allbery <[email protected]> Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <[email protected]> Seconded: Niels Thykier <[email protected]> Closes: #823348 * Policy: Explicitly allow https form of copyright-format URL Wording: Russ Allbery <[email protected]> Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin <[email protected]> Seconded: gregor herrmann <[email protected]> Seconded: Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <[email protected]> Closes: #850646 * Policy: Recommend libraryname-dev or librarynameAPIVERSION-dev Wording: Ansgar Burchardt <[email protected]> Seconded: Julien Cristau <[email protected]> Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <[email protected]> Closes: #568374 * Policy: Add optional try-restart init status, make status recommended Wording: Andreas Henriksson <[email protected]> Seconded: Simon McVittie <[email protected]> Seconded: Felipe Sateler <[email protected]> Seconded: Ondřej Nový <[email protected]> Closes: #181123 * Policy: No special dependency now required for /run Wording: Marc Haber <[email protected]> Seconded: Andreas Henriksson <[email protected]> Seconded: Russ Allbery <[email protected]> Closes: #852314 * Policy: Update policy on /dev and device file management Wording: Russ Allbery <[email protected]> Seconded: Andreas Henriksson <[email protected]> Seconded: Simon McVittie <[email protected]> Closes: #698012 * Policy: Remove integration instructions for upstart Wording: Ansgar Burchardt <[email protected]> Seconded: Michael Biebl <[email protected]> Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin <[email protected]> Seconded: Simon McVittie <[email protected]> Closes: #835490 * Perl: Update module search path for multiarch support Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <[email protected]> Seconded: Niko Tyni <[email protected]> Seconded: Russ Allbery <[email protected]> Closes: #798309 * virtual-package-names-list: Add adventure Wording: Ben Finney <[email protected]> Seconded: Russ Allbery <[email protected]> Seconded: Niels Thykier <[email protected]> Closes: #821859 * virtual-package-names-list: Add httpd-wsgi3 Wording: Bill Allombert <[email protected]> Seconded: Brian May <[email protected]> Seconded: Russ Allbery <[email protected]> Closes: #768117 * virtual-package-names-list: Add virtual-mysql-* packages Wording: Otto Kekäläinen <[email protected]> Seconded: Russ Allbery <[email protected]> Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <[email protected]> Closes: #829367 * Convert all remaining DebianDoc-SGML source files in the package to DocBook XML. Many thanks to Osamu Aoki and Guillem Jover for lots of hard work on the conversion. This was a huge conversion, so there will probably be some lingering formatting issues, incorrect markup, and less-than-ideal output. Please report any problems as bugs. (Closes: #175064, #700532, #809382) * Additional fixes from Guillem Jover as part of the DocBook conversion: - Stop distributing the source SGML files as part of the installed package. There doesn't seem to be any point in doing this. - Switch to xsltproc and dblatex instead of OpenJade. - Stop using tidy on the generated files since it generates larger files and the output from xsltproc is already compliant and fairly clean. - Remove unused Build-Depends. - Use entities instead of literal <, >, and & characters. - Use <var> instead of escaped angle brackets for metavariables. - Use <var> instead of <em> inside <tt>. - Avoid slashes in section IDs. - Convert a comment about maintenance policy in the Menu Policy document to a regular paragraph in the document. - Replace a comment reference to the policy maintenance process with an actual link to Process.md. - Remove obsolete SGML comments. * Move the description of < and > relations to a footnote to make abundantly clear that they're no longer valid relation operators in dependencies. (Closes: #816515) * Clarify informative mentions of debian/tmp in the appendices to document the now-common use of debian/<pkg> instead as the temporary staging area. Document that convention, instead of debian/tmp-something, for multi-binary packages. Thanks, Niels Thykier. (Closes: #816249) * Remove lingering wording that implied that build-arch and build-indep targets are optional. Thanks, Ferenc Wagner, Jakub Wilk, and Charles Plessy. (Closes: #793999) * Rather than giving the paths to the installed shlibs and symbols files and then saying those paths shouldn't be used, just say to use dpkg-query --control-show. Recommend --control-show instead of --control-path, since the latter is deprecated. Patch from Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #688220) * Explicitly give Unicode code points in the definition of the syntax of Debian control files and, where appropriate, show the character. Patch from Ben Finney. (Closes: #821365) * Remove obsolete footnote about a versioned dependency on a liblockfile1 release from 1999. Thanks, Jakub Wilk. (Closes: #794902) * Fix the long name of the Common Public License in the copyright-format policy. It is just Common Public License, with no leading "IBM". Thanks, Stefano Zacchiroli. (Closes: #781654) * Fix the copyright-format examples to not have duplicate License paragraphs. Thanks, Stefan <[email protected]>. (Closes: #824922) * Replace reference to dbus-launch in the autopkgtest documentation with dbus-run-session. Patch from Simon McVittie. (Closes: #835876) * Add an example of an architecture restriction in a dependency with multiple architectures separated by spaces. (Closes: #734662) * Replace use of markdown with MultiMarkdown for the autopkgtest documentation and convert README and Process to MultiMarkdown, thus dropping the last org-mode files and the build dependency on Emacs. Patch from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #849483) * Add some additional information to the upgrading-checklist entry for the 3.9.8.0 release. * Fix debian/changelog and upgrading-checklist dates for the 3.9.8.0 release to match the actual upload. (Closes: #822059) * Fix duplicated "the" words in 4.4 and 8.6.3.2. Patch from Valentin Samir. (Closes: #830989) * Clean up the upgrading checklist a bit: - Rewrite the introduction to read a bit more smoothly and mention that the Standards-Version value omits the minor patch number. - Remove the minor patch number from all the version headings except for the anomalies that contain normative changes, and note those explicitly. - Remove some unhelpful section headings and trailing colons in very old upgrading checklist entries. - Standardize the release date format. * Compress all files with gzip -n to avoid embedding timestamps, enabling reproducible builds. * Redo some of the Makefile and debian/rules dependencies to avoid ambiguous pattern rules and to ensure that make at the top level rebuilds output files if input files change. * Switch to https URLs for Vcs-Git and Vcs-Browser. * Use the same URL for both Vcs-Git and Vcs-Browser, which now works fine and has some advantages over the gitweb version for Vcs-Browser. Thanks, Mattia Rizzolo. * Run wrap-and-sort -ast. * Tag as Multi-Arch: foreign (mostly to silence the hinter). . [ Sean Whitton ] * Remove references to DebianDoc-SGML from README.md. * Fix typo & comma splice in Process.md. 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