[Pkg-clamav-devel] Ideas concerning #486076

[Michael Tautschnig]

Hi all,

One question before the real thing starts off: In case there is anything
requiring debate concerning a bug report, should we do so in the bug report or
in a separate mail (like this one) on the list. It's just about more or less
about presenting a single opinion of the team to the bug submitter, or openly
giving several opinions until a consenus is reached? I don't really care about
this, but others might do so.

So well, back to effective work: In reviewing the bug reports I stumbled over
#486076, where the user requested that the status action of the init script
returns an exit code other than 0 in some cases. I've now collected some
additional material, starting from http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts:

- Debian Policy does not yet require a status action at all.
- Adding this to Debian Policy is requested in #291148.
- This bug report contains some discussion of exit codes, and which ones to use,
  but the bug is still open.
- LSB specifies a range of exit codes to be used, and as of 2008-07-09 this made
  its way into the lsb-base package (see #483285).
- The latter bug report also contains the suggested patch to all init scripts to
  use the standard status function.

In summary, we may leave the bug report as is (there is no requirement by Debian
Policy), but my personal opionion would be following LSB and updating the init
script accordingly.

Best,
Michael

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