Howdy debian-devel- The LSB 3.1 specification [1] defines a 'status' action for LSB-compliant init scripts. Some high-availability (HA) packages included in Debian expect to use a 'status' action as provided by the init script [2] to query daemon status. In general, such 'status' actions in Debian would be broadly useful to both system administrators and users. The lsb-base 3.2-14 package adds a new library function to /lib/lsb/init-functions; namely, status_of_proc() [3,4]. This function can be used in the vast majority of init scripts to generically provide an interface to gathering and reporting status. Individual init script patches often look something like: + status) + status_of_proc -p "$PIDFILE" "$DAEMON" "$NAME" && exit 0 || exit $? + ;; As an example, see Debian Bug #492138 against rsync and the associated patch [5]. Bug #208010 suggests LSB-compliance of all init scripts in Debian [6]. And Bug #291148 suggests a debian-policy change requiring 'status' actions for all init scripts [7]. I believe that the new functionality present in lsb-base provides a healthy framework for advancing such 'status' actions in a vast number of Debian init scripts. In Ubuntu, we have undertaken an effort to patch as many such init scripts as possible [8]. In most of these cases, we would like to contribute this functionality back to the Debian package. I believe this flow of bugs and patches would qualify as a 'mass bug filing' [9]. So far, we filed a few bugs before it was suggested that we propose this on the debian-devel mailing list: * 492126, 492131, 492138, 492541, 492625 Is it ok to continue filing these requests as wishlist bugs, or is another approach preferred? [1] http://refspecs.freestandards.org/LSB_3.1.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/iniscrptact.html [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=488275 [3] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=483285 [4] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=490095 [5] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=5;filename=rsync.debian.patch;att=1;bug=492138 [6] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=208010 [7] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=291148 [8] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/InitScriptStatusActions [9] http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/beyond-pkging.html#submit-many-bugs -- :-Dustin Dustin Kirkland Ubuntu Server Developer Canonical, LTD kirkland@canonical.com GPG: 1024D/83A61194
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