Bug#377740: lintian: lintian doesn't report missing LSB information in init-scripts
Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.22
Severity: wishlist
To be able to check boot script order, and also to be able to start
boot scripts in parallel, it is important to know the dependencies of
the various boot scripts. The Linux Software Base specifies a init.d
header file format useful for this purpose, and adding such header to
all scripts in /etc/init.d would make it possible to use this
information to check the current sequence and speed up the debian
boot. Many maintainers forget to add LSB compliant headers in their
init-scripts and this could be avoided if lintian detected this fault.
<URL:http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts>
explains how to make an LSB-compliant script with Debian and a current
status of LSB-compliance of init-scripts is available a
<URL:http://initscripts-ng.alioth.debian.org/soc2006-bootsystem/lsblist.html>
Currently there is a script in perl to check LSB compliance in:
<URL:http://initscripts-ng.alioth.debian.org/soc2006-bootsystem/code/checkLSB>
which is intended to be expanded to a lintian patch for the Deliverable
5 of the project "Improving the debian boot" in
<URL:http://initscripts-ng.alioth.debian.org/soc2006-bootsystem/>.
I am using Debian GNU/Linux Unstable, kernel 2.6.16-2-486
cheers,
Carlos Villegas
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