[Pkg-puppet-devel] [SCM] Puppet packaging for Debian branch, upstream, updated. 2.6.5rc1-120-g2247c80

[nfagerlund]

The following commit has been merged in the upstream branch:
commit 0084b082df016ad87752ef570cfe50bce0f6048e
Author: nfagerlund <nick.fagerlund at gmail.com>
Date:   Mon Jan 24 13:47:53 2011 -0800

    (#5548) Specify return values of manual status commands in service type description.
    
    Reviewed by Matt Robinson.

diff --git a/lib/puppet/type/service.rb b/lib/puppet/type/service.rb
index c00f027..2801f3a 100644
--- a/lib/puppet/type/service.rb
+++ b/lib/puppet/type/service.rb
@@ -144,10 +144,16 @@ module Puppet
         specified."
     end
     newparam(:status) do
-      desc "Specify a *status* command manually.  If left
-        unspecified, the status method will be determined
-        automatically, usually by looking for the service in the
-        process table."
+      desc "Specify a *status* command manually.  This command must
+        return 0 if the service is running and a nonzero value otherwise.
+        Ideally, these return codes should conform to
+        [the LSB's specification for init script status actions](http://refspecs.freestandards.org/LSB_3.1.1/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/iniscrptact.html),
+        but puppet only considers the difference between 0 and nonzero
+        to be relevant.
+
+        If left unspecified, the status method will be determined
+        automatically, usually by looking for the service in the process
+        table."
     end
 
     newparam(:stop) do

-- 
Puppet packaging for Debian