Bug#208010: [PROPOSAL] init script LSB 1.3 compliance

[Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr>]

On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 08:35:08AM +0200, Martin Godisch wrote:
> >   All status messages mandated by policy should go to standard output.
> > 
> > We can hope people have sufficient sense to use stderr for error
> > messages.
> 
> Yes, I think so. But now you suggest to add "mandated by policy" only,
> what's the reason not to require other status messages to be sent to
> standard output?

Because we don't need to write it down. These messages are not
mentionned in policy so policy has nothing to say about them. We rely
on common sense to send them to stdout the same way as error message to
stderr.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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