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Re: MBF (Re: correct use of su)




Le 13 mai 2014 03:01, "Michael Biebl" <biebl@debian.org> a écrit :
>
> Am 13.05.2014 02:54, schrieb Russ Allbery:
> > Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> writes:
> >
> >> AFAIK, d-i disabling of s-s-d is a historical workaround for packages
> >> not using invoke-rc.d (back in the days before it was a Policy "must").
> >> Maybe it's time to drop this diversion of s-s-d?
> >
> > Yeah, that's just what I was thinking.  Any software that doesn't honor an
> > invoke-rc.d policy is RC-buggy anyway, and it would be good to catch and
> > fix that.

Could you also open a big against Lintian:
- describing how to detect this problem
- a tag description with reference and solution

It will help to avoid to reintroduce this kind of problem.

Thank you
>
> Given the responses so far, I might consider doing a MBF based on the
> list I posted at [0]. I think this list is pretty complete wrt SysV init
> scripts. I could extend that to cronjobs etc if there is interest.
>
> Is there some general agreement that such a MBF would be
> worthwile/appreciated?
>
> Steve, Bigon, in such a case, would you be willing to help draft the MBF
> text?
>
> Michael
>
> [0] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/05/msg00459.html
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