Re: MBF (Re: correct use of su)

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

> Le 13 mai 2014 03:01, "Michael Biebl" <biebl@debian.org> a =C3=A9crit :
>> Am 13.05.2014 02:54, schrieb Russ Allbery:

>>> 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.

Lintian has detected this for years as well as it's able.  See:

    maintainer-script-should-not-use-start-stop-daemon
    maintainer-script-calls-init-script-directly

I don't think there's anything further required in Lintian.

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>