Bug#460499: lintian: No need to warn about missing short-description LSB header in init.d scripts
Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> writes:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 1.23.41
>
> Now that the LSB headers in init.d scripts is more used, it has become
> obvious that the lintian warning about missing short-description is
> not needed. As far as I know, there is nothing using this header, and
> quite a lot of scripts are missing it. It is only nice to have, and
> do not deserve a warning on its own.
>
> Here is an example warning from the list of lintian messages on the
> web:
>
> W: chrony: init.d-script-missing-lsb-keyword /etc/init.d/chrony
> short-description
>
> Because of this, I recommend dropping the warning.
Do you think we should drop it completely or just reduce it to info?
I think having a description is rather nice and may help figure out where
an init script abandoned by some previous package came from without having
to do as much research. It still feels like a best practice thing even if
it isn't used by software.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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