Re: Need some guide with LSB core

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Bas Wijnen writes ("Re: Need some guide with LSB core"):
> On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 08:27:45PM +0530, V.Krishn wrote:
> > Conforming scripts shall not specify the "exit on error" option (i.e.
> > set -e) when sourcing this file, or calling any of the commands thus
> > made available.
> 
> From the bugs you cite, the consensus in Debian seems to be that this is
> an unreasonable requirement which leads to buggy code.  However, since
> it is a requirement, we follow it and try to be very careful to avoid
> bugs.

I think we need to be clear that Debian policy is that init scripts
shipped by Debian for Debian SHOULD NOT comply with this wrongheaded
LSB requirement.

LSB is, after all, a specification for third-party packages.  init
scripts written for Debian are first-party and can be Debian specific.

Ian.