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Re: It's Huntin' Season



On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 09:40:17AM +0000, malcolm@ivywell.screaming.net wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 08:41:25AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 08:38:02PM +0000, Malcolm Parsons wrote:
> > > "From policy section 10.3.2:
> > > 
> > >     The /etc/init.d scripts should be treated as configuration files,
>                                 ^^^^^^
> 
> > 10.3.2 doesn't say you must give the administrator some way to configure
> > the script. It says the script must be handled like any other configuration
> > file -- either it's a conffile, or it's handled by the package scripts.
> > Simple as that.
> 
> Ah, but it doesn't say "must", it says "should".

That may be a mistake in policy then because in practice it is a must.

Policy defines should as being something that usually makes the package
buggy if it doesn't do it. ie libc6 is buggy in this case.

Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>



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