Bug#152955: debian-policy: Clarify force-reload, be LSB-compliant in doing so.

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>]

On Fri, 07 Jul 2006, Sven Mueller wrote:
> Package: debian-policy
> Version: 3.7.2.1
> Followup-For: Bug #152955
> 
> According to LSB 3.1 (see [1]), force-reload should only restart the
> service if it is already running. Therefore I suggest applying the

This is directly against what we have implemented on Debian (even if it does
make sense to do it the LSB way).

Policy cannot be changed for this in a way to strong rule the LSB behaviour.
The vast majority of the initscripts need to be fixed to comply, first.

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  Henrique Holschuh