Debian Bug report logs - #96710
[checks/init.d] init.d message formats

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Message #5 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Julian Gilbey <[email protected]>

To: Debian bug reports <[email protected]>

Subject: lintian: check for init.d message formats

Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 00:19:15 +0100

Package: lintian
Version: 1.20.13
Severity: wishlist

It would be nice if lintian were able to check for some of the message
formats described in policy section 10.5.

   Julian

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Message #8 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Subject: more infor requested

Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 12:38:02 -0700 (PDT)

Could you comment some more on what you wanted to me to check for?  Are you
looking for known bad styles or for things not matching a certain boiler plate?

Message #11 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Julian Gilbey <[email protected]>

To: Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[email protected]>, [email protected]

Subject: Re: Bug#96710: more infor requested

Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 21:18:50 +0100

On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 12:38:02PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> Could you comment some more on what you wanted to me to check for?  Are you
> looking for known bad styles or for things not matching a certain boiler plate?

There is a certain boilerplate described in policy; the "start" part
should have a message like:

Starting printer spooler: lpd.

so maybe lintian could check for something like:
/(echo|printf).*["']Starting .*:/
in this case; similarly for the "stop" and "reload" cases.  I don't
think lintian can do that much more without being needlessly
complicated; I tended to spot stuff like "reloading" with a lower-case
"r".

   Julian

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Message #14 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[email protected]>

To: Julian Gilbey <[email protected]>

Cc: [email protected]

Subject: Re: Bug#96710: more infor requested

Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 13:24:35 -0700 (PDT)

On 20-Sep-2001 Julian Gilbey wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 12:38:02PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
>> Could you comment some more on what you wanted to me to check for?  Are you
>> looking for known bad styles or for things not matching a certain boiler
>> plate?
> 
> There is a certain boilerplate described in policy; the "start" part
> should have a message like:
> 
> Starting printer spooler: lpd.
> 
> so maybe lintian could check for something like:
> /(echo|printf).*["']Starting .*:/
> in this case; similarly for the "stop" and "reload" cases.  I don't
> think lintian can do that much more without being needlessly
> complicated; I tended to spot stuff like "reloading" with a lower-case
> "r".
> 

so if I see 'Starting' or 'Stopping' I am checking for capital 'S's and no
chars before the 'S'?  Anything else?

Message #17 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Julian Gilbey <[email protected]>

To: Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[email protected]>

Cc: [email protected]

Subject: Re: Bug#96710: more infor requested

Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 00:05:31 +0100

On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 01:24:35PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> > Starting printer spooler: lpd.
> > 
> > so maybe lintian could check for something like:
> > /(echo|printf).*["']Starting .*:/
> > in this case; similarly for the "stop" and "reload" cases.  I don't
> > think lintian can do that much more without being needlessly
> > complicated; I tended to spot stuff like "reloading" with a lower-case
> > "r".
> > 
> 
> so if I see 'Starting' or 'Stopping' I am checking for capital 'S's and no
> chars before the 'S'?  Anything else?

And "Reloading".  Also, worth checking for a colon near the end of the
echo/printf command.

   Julian

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Message #32 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Niels Thykier <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Cc: Julian Gilbey <[email protected]>, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[email protected]>

Subject: Re: lintian: check for init.d message formats

Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2015 08:51:18 +0200

Control: tags -1 wontfix

On Tue, 8 May 2001 00:19:15 +0100 Julian Gilbey <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 1.20.13
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> It would be nice if lintian were able to check for some of the message
> formats described in policy section 10.5.
> 
>    Julian
> 
> -- 
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I am tagging this wontfix, since:

 * De facto it is (with no one working on it for 14 years).
 * It is likely to be less of an issue in the future with sysvinit no
   longer being the default init system.

Patches still welcome, though this is not the most prioritised bug.

Thanks,
~Niels

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