Bug#820770: Bug#889640: lintian: init.d-script-possible-missing-stop misfire on rcS scripts
On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 05:50:28PM +1030, Ron wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 03:32:55AM +0530, Chris Lamb wrote:
> > tags 820770 + moreinfo
> > thanks
> >
> >
> > Hi Ron and Felipe,
> >
> > Hm, are #820770 and #889640 the same issue? If so, we should either
> > close them both or reopen both of them.
>
> Yes, that was exactly my line of thinking when I first saw this warning,
> before discovering that in practice /etc/rc1.d/S01killprocs is going to
> stop it anyway before switching to rcS and restarting it again. And
> that is exactly what the extended lintian warning was trying to explain
> (and probably successfully would have if the system I first saw it on
> had initscripts installed which provides that script).
>
> These two should definitely be merged, but I'd welcome Felipe reviewing
> the conclusions I came to here https://bugs.debian.org/889640#15 just
> in case I did miss something we ought to do other than just close this
> now.
I chatted with Felipe on IRC, and lintian is still right :) So feel free
to close/merge this one now too.
Thanks for the awesome job you've been doing working through the lintian
backlog in the BTS!
Cheers,
Ron
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