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:
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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
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