[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#683802: sysvinit: Lintian: E: init.d-script-should-depend-on-virtual-facility [patch]

[Sven Joachim]

On 2012-08-04 08:59 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:

> [Martin-Éric Racine]
>> This patch fixes Lintian: E: init.d-script-should-depend-on-virtual-facility.
>> The main question about deciding whether to apply it or not is, do we want 
>> to explicitly depend upon specific services from known packages or not?
>> If we decide that we do, we'd need a Lintian override.
>
> Did you test this change?  I suspect it will break the boot system.

It would introduce a cyclic dependency between $remote_fs and
mountnfs-bootclean, and mountnfs-bootclean really ought to be run before
starting other services depending on $remote_fs.

> I am pretty sure the initscripts scripts should not have more
> dependencies on $remote_fs, and that the lintian check do not apply
> here.  The init.d scripts in initscripts are the framework for the
> other script to build upon, and the general rules often do not appyl.

Incidentally, /etc/insserv.conf lists mountnfs-bootclean as a dependency
of $remote_fs, but mountall-bootclean is not a dependency of $local_fs.
Should it be?

Cheers,
       Sven