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Re: Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers



Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com> writes:
> Le 19 nov. 2014 21:33, "Russ Allbery" <rra@debian.org> a écrit :

>> Yes, absolutely.  Likewise for cron jobs, etc.  That's something that I
>> don't think we're doing a great job of right now, and really should
>> improve.

> Could lintian help here ?

Yes, although it's tricky.

If a package has only an init script, and that init script has a custom
action to do the right thing for log rotation, then running that with
service or /etc/init.d is actually okay.  But those are the patterns that
we should otherwise be wary of.

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


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