[Pkg-haproxy-maintainers] Bug#804530: Bug#804530: haproxy: Ensure stop action works on pre-systemd versions of Debian (and Ubuntu)

[James Page]

Hi Vincent

On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Vincent Bernat <bernat at debian.org> wrote:

>  ❦  9 novembre 2015 09:47 GMT, James Page <james.page at ubuntu.com> :
>
> > In Ubuntu, the attached patch was applied to achieve the following:
> >
> >   [ Jorge Niedbalski ]
> >   * debian/haproxy.init:
> >     + Pass the pidfile to the --pidfile argument instead of the PID
> >       number, easing backports to pre-systemd versions of Ubuntu
> >       and Debian (LP: #1477198).
> >
> > On older Ubuntu versions (pre systemd), the stop action was not
> > working correctly in the init script; this patch resolves that issue.
>
> I don't think this is compatible with multiple HAProxy processes
> (nbproc > 1). See how we do that when start-stop-daemon doesn't
> support --pid:
>

Hmm - so start-stop-daemon will generate multiple pids into the pidfile
when nbproc > 1?

If so I agree that the patch is incomplete (and also broken in Ubuntu 14.04
right now).
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