Re: LSB Status
According to Sean 'Shaleh' Perry:
> > If I'm not mistaken that is not nessecary unless we plan to move
> > all .deb archives over to .lsb too, which is not going to happen.
> > Debian will stay Debian we just need to make it possible to install
> > .lsb files *as well*
>
> we can support the installation of lsb binaries HOWEVER the lsb spec adds a
> 'status' option to init scripts which lsb packages may expect to exist. So at
> the bare minimum we need to support that.
Well no, packages in .lsb that have an /etc/init.d/initscript must
support the 'status' option but Debian packages don't have to do
that as they are Debian packages and not .LSB packages.
> If we actually want to call Debian an LSB system that involves the work I
> mentioned above.
There's probably lots to do for LSB compliance but adding a status
option to every /etc/init.d/* script is probably not part of it.
Disclaimer:
If I'm wrong then the LSB spec is even more stupid than I thought...
Mike.
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"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity,
and I'm not sure about the former" -- Albert Einstein.
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