Bug#604620: Acknowledgement (Please warn if LSB init header does not have a Description and Short-Description field)

Petter Reinholdtsen pere at hungry.com
Tue Nov 23 07:32:29 UTC 2010


[Michael Biebl]
> In case you're interested, I did some statistics:
>
> We currently ship 1085 sysv init scripts in unstable.
>
> LSB header completely missing: 2
> missing Description: 408
> missing Short-Description: 121
> missing Provides: 2
> missing Required-Start: 7
> missing Required-Stop: 7
> missing Should-Start: 661
> missing Should-Stop: 717
> missing Default-Start: 5
> missing Default-Stop: 5

Thank you.

> warning about missing Should-(Start,Stop) is probably not going to
> be helpful as it will generate too much noise.

Espesially since they are optional, and lacking them is no error.

More issues with the init.d script headers are available from
<URL: http://lintian.debian.org/~pere/test-20101122.log >.

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen



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