On Sun, 05 Nov 2000, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > packages buggy''. Indeeed, anything like this should probably be > introduced as a recommendation; and non-compliance should be deemed a I will change the proposal to recommend the use of invoke-rc.d, and add a warning that 'in the future' usage of invoke-rc.d will be required. > If you would rephrase the policy diffs I'd be happy to second > this proposal (whenever you feel it has reached the state that is is > appropriate for a proposal). Thanks. Please refer to the attached diff, and tell me if it is of your liking. AFAIK, the only issue still open with invoke-rc.d is the fallback of restart to restart-if-running. I am waiting for a while to see if that thread stalled for good or not, before I fill a wishlist bug with the proposal. I may try to write the invoke-rc.d manpage before submitting the proposal as well, but I am not sure about that yet. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh
diff -u policy.text policy.text
--- policy.text
+++ policy.text
@@ -1144,9 +1144,13 @@
start, stop and otherwise manage services. This program may be used by
maintainers in their packages' scripts.
- You must use `invoke-rc.d' to invoke the `/etc/init.d/*'
- initscripts. Package scripts must not call /etc/init.d scripts
- directly.
+ You should use `invoke-rc.d' to invoke the `/etc/init.d/*'
+ initscripts. Package scripts should not call /etc/init.d scripts
+ directly.
+
+ In the future, the use of invoke-rc.d to invoke initscripts will be
+ made mandatory. Maintainers are advised to switch to invoke-rc.d as
+ soon as possible.
By default, `invoke-rc.d' will pass any action requests (start, stop,
reload, restart...) to the /etc/init.d script, filtering out requests
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