Bug#553135: sendmail-base: maintainer-script-calls-init-script-directly prerm:67 than using invoke-rc.d. The use of invoke-rc.d to invoke the /etc/init.d/* initscripts instead of calling them directly

Hi, thanks to Manoj for pointing this out and Richard for explaining it. Unfortunately this rc bug is still open after two months. Short summary: sendmail-base.prerm invokes an init script without invoke-rc.d which technically is forbidden by the Debian policy. (report from Manoj) The part

Bug#553135: sendmail-base: maintainer-script-calls-init-script-directly prerm:67 than using invoke-rc.d. The use of invoke-rc.d to invoke the /etc/init.d/* initscripts instead of calling them directly

Helmut Grohne hel...@subdivi.de writes: thanks to Manoj for pointing this out and Richard for explaining it. Unfortunately this rc bug is still open after two months. Short summary: sendmail-base.prerm invokes an init script without invoke-rc.d which technically is forbidden by the Debian

Bug#553135: sendmail-base: maintainer-script-calls-init-script-directly prerm:67 than using invoke-rc.d. The use of invoke-rc.d to invoke the /etc/init.d/* initscripts instead of calling them directly

severity 553135 normal thanks On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 01:50:40PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: That being said, this is clearly not the problem that either Policy or the Lintian tag were designed to catch, and you should feel free to decrease the severity and add an override. Also, please feel

Bug#553135: sendmail-base: maintainer-script-calls-init-script-directly prerm:67 than using invoke-rc.d. The use of invoke-rc.d to invoke the /etc/init.d/* initscripts instead of calling them directly

That would be this section: sendmail-base.prerm:if [ -x /usr/etc/init.d/sendmail ]; then sendmail-base.prerm:/usr/etc/init.d/sendmail clean; Since every other call to /etc/init.d/sendmail is guarded by a test for invoke-rc.d. The invoke-rc.d manpage says: INIT