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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: lsb-base: ugly output
- From: Ian Zimmerman <nobrowser@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 19:46:48 -0500
- Message-id: <E1EaN44-0000rD-8g@unicorn>
Package: lsb-base
Version: 3.0-11
Severity: wishlist
Now that they use the functions in /lib/lsb/init-functions, the output from many
initscripts now looks like this:
Thu Nov 10 18:48:02 2005: .
Thu Nov 10 18:48:02 2005: findfs: Unable to resolve 'LABEL=USBDISK'
Thu Nov 10 18:48:02 2005: Activating swap...
Thu Nov 10 18:48:02 2005: .
Thu Nov 10 18:48:02 2005: Checking root file system.../dev/hda3: clean, 161071/7389184 files, 989657/14755702 blocks
Thu Nov 10 18:48:02 2005: .
Thu Nov 10 18:48:02 2005: Cleaning up ifupdown...done.
Thu Nov 10 18:48:03 2005: Calculating module dependencies...done.
Thu Nov 10 18:48:03 2005: Loading modules...
Thu Nov 10 18:48:03 2005: snd-via82xx
Thu Nov 10 18:48:04 2005: Setting up ALSA....
Thu Nov 10 18:48:04 2005: snd-pcm-oss
Thu Nov 10 18:48:04 2005: snd-mixer-oss
Thu Nov 10 18:48:04 2005: lp
Thu Nov 10 18:48:04 2005: All modules loaded.
Thu Nov 10 18:48:04 2005: Setting the System Clock using the Hardware Clock as reference
Thu Nov 10 18:48:06 2005: System Clock set. Local time: Thu Nov 10 23:48:06 UTC 2005
Thu Nov 10 18:48:06 2005: .
Thu Nov 10 18:48:06 2005: Checking all file systems.../dev/hda1: clean, 36/8032 files, 7018/32098 blocks
Thu Nov 10 18:48:06 2005: .
Thu Nov 10 18:48:06 2005: Setting kernel variables ...
Thu Nov 10 18:48:06 2005: ... done.
Thu Nov 10 18:48:06 2005: Mounting local filesystems.../dev/hda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
Thu Nov 10 18:48:06 2005: .
etc. (this is from /var/log/boot, the actual output doesn't have the date+time prefix,
but the line breaks are the same)
Is this actually mandated by LSB? I can't believe that. If yes, Debian shold just ignore it IMHO
and return to the old way (which I think was specified in policy?) with the dots and "done." on
the same line as the announcement.
I have checked #321954 but my complaint is about many, perhaps all, scripts which use these
lsb functions, it is not an exception for one package.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-10custom1
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages lsb-base depends on:
ii ncurses-bin 5.4-9 Terminal-related programs and man
ii sed 4.1.2-8 The GNU sed stream editor
lsb-base recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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