Bug#931847: Boggus package-supports-alternative-init-but-no-init.d-script test?

2019-07-18 Thread Chris Lamb
Michael Biebl wrote: > Fwiw, I've only seen 100s of false positives so far. Claiming it's > certainty to be "certain" is overstating it "a little". Due to prioritisation of effort and energy the Lintian maintainers put very little time and effort into curating these "certainty" levels. I would t

Bug#931847: Boggus package-supports-alternative-init-but-no-init.d-script test?

2019-07-18 Thread Michael Biebl
On 18.07.19 21:43, Michael Biebl wrote: > Hm, why the moreinfo tag? > This lintian check is clearly way too broad to be useful as-is. > At its current state, please demote it to pedantic (or reverting it > completely) until it actually is useful. Fwiw, I've only seen 100s of false positives so far

Bug#931847: Boggus package-supports-alternative-init-but-no-init.d-script test?

2019-07-18 Thread Michael Biebl
On Thu, 11 Jul 2019 11:39:28 -0300 "Chris Lamb" wrote: > block 931847 by 911165 > tags 931847 + moreinfo > thanks > > Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > > > > My understanding of the policy is that, if a package supports an > > > alternative init (other than systemd) it must also support sysvinit. > > >

Bug#931847: Boggus package-supports-alternative-init-but-no-init.d-script test?

2019-07-15 Thread Laurent Bigonville
On Thu, 11 Jul 2019 13:26:34 +0200 Laurent Bigonville wrote: [...] > > Also note that if the check is actually correct, this will create false > positive for all the systemd .service files not started at boot > (scheduled jobs, dbus activated,...). > It's also creating false positives with syml

Bug#931847: Boggus package-supports-alternative-init-but-no-init.d-script test?

2019-07-11 Thread Chris Lamb
block 931847 by 911165 tags 931847 + moreinfo thanks Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > > My understanding of the policy is that, if a package supports an > > alternative init (other than systemd) it must also support sysvinit. > > > > Also note that if the check is actually correct, this will create fal

Bug#931847: Boggus package-supports-alternative-init-but-no-init.d-script test?

2019-07-11 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
On Thu, 11 Jul 2019 13:26:34 +0200 Laurent Bigonville wrote: > My understanding of the policy is that, if a package supports an > alternative init (other than systemd) it must also support sysvinit. > > Also note that if the check is actually correct, this will create false > positive for all the

Bug#931847: Boggus package-supports-alternative-init-but-no-init.d-script test?

2019-07-11 Thread Laurent Bigonville
Package: lintian Version: 2.16.0 Severity: important Hi, Isn't the new package-supports-alternative-init-but-no-init.d-script test boggus (added by: #926471)? The test is the following: if ( $file =~ m,etc/sv/([^/]+)/run$, or $file =~ m,lib/systemd/system/(.*)\.service,) {