Re: Bug#181123: [PATCH 0/2] Mention try-reload and status actions
Hello Russ Allbery,
On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 02:42:59PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Control: tag 181123 pending
>
> Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se> writes:
>
> > These patches is an attempt to finally put #181123 to rest.
>
> > It tries to strike a well balanced middle ground between existing
> > debian state of the archive and the LSB. The main focus has been
> > to atleast mention the actions where previously left out of policy
> > while being documented in LSB.
>
> > This entire chapter still needs a major overhaul given the world no
> > longer only revolves around (sysv)init scripts. That's no reason not to
> > start with this small first step though....
>
> Thanks! These have been applied for the next release.
Just wanted to mention that your wording in
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/dbnpolicy/policy.git/commit/?id=4d1554fbeda370d6d320f32dca63f84b3091b336
is atleast in my interpretation a bit misleading....
+ <item>The <tt>status</tt> init script argument is now recommended rather
+ than just optional.</item>
Actually status is brand new addition to policy. It wasn't documented at
all before, while being required in LSB.
As mentioned already the reason for "recommended" rather than required
is to not instantly create many RC bugs. (And reason for not making
it optional is because it's required in LSB and we probably want to
move in that direction.)
Not sure if it makes much difference, but I just thought I'd mention it.
btw, release early release often! Many good changes pending in git now.... ;)
Thanks for your hard work on improving policy!
Regards,
Andreas Henriksson
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