[Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#565496: Bug#565496: Invalid logic sourcing init-functions

[Michael Welle]

Hi Alexander,

Alexander Wirt wrote:
> 
> Michael Welle schrieb am Samstag, den 16. Januar 2010:
> 
> Hi, 
> 
> > The logic for sourcing the file init-functions seems to be odd:
> > 
> > if ! [ -x "/lib/lsb/init-functions" ]; then
> >   . /lib/lsb/init-functions
> > else
> >   echo "E: /lib/lsb/init-functions not found, lsb-base (>= 3.0-6) needed"
> >   exit 1
> > fi
> > 
> > The file is not sourced if it exists, but has its execute bits set. On
> > the other hand the script tries to source the file if it doesn't exist
> > at all. It should be sufficient to just test if the file is readable.
> Indeed, thats stupid. Don't ask me how this went into it, but I'll fix that
> soon.
I have several packages installed, that suffer from the same
problem. My guess is that someone 'invented that phrase' and then it's
copied over and over again ;). 

Regards
hmw


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