Hi,

for native openrc services, lintian emits an informational tag:

I: openrc-native: init.d-script-does-not-implement-status-option [etc/init.d/binfmt]

This script (and all native openrc scripts) start with /sbin/openrc-run;
thus, please do not emit this tag, which only applies for sysv init
scripts.

best,

werdahias

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etc/init.d is for sysv init scripts. So the warning seems correct?

Anything shipped there should for example include LSB headers, source
/lib/lsb/init-functions and so on. I'm not sure openrc would do that
given they don't use a shell as an interpreter?

If packages ship incompatible scripts for alternative init systems,
they should be shipped in a different location such as
usr/lib/openrc/init or so.

(And please don't add conffiles to generic packages for alternative
init systems. Conffiles are often handled badly by packages. Conffiles
that stay around after switching init and then break other init systems
due to missing LSB headers and/or interpreters also seem like a
problem.)

Ansgar

openRC also supports /etc/init.d as location for its init scripts.
That has been resolved by having a conflict between openrc with sysvinit
support and native openrc with native init scripts.
That is not a conffile, but an openrc init script.

best,

werdahias

Hi,

Shipping files in /etc that are not conffiles is another policy
violation...

And shipping conflicting conffiles in different packages is yet another
problem.

Ansgar