Hello, On Mon 30 Nov 2020 at 07:49PM +01, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 02:37:08PM +0100, Oxan van Leeuwen wrote: >> Source: debian-policy >> Version: 4.5.1.0 >> Severity: normal >> >> Currently Policy requires that init.d scripts, and only init.d scripts, don't >> fail if the corresponding /etc/default is removed (section 9.3.2, second-to-last >> paragraph). >> >> Personally I interpret "not fail" as "succeed to function", i.e. it has to >> actually start the daemon. I don't think that's a particularly sensible >> requirement. > > 'not fail' here means that the script terminates with return code 0. This is how I would read it too. Would a patch to add "(i.e. exit with return code 0)" resolve the original submitter's concerns? -- Sean Whitton
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