[Pkg-systemd-maintainers] Bug#717109: invoke-rc.d: Allow stop and status requests for masked systemd services

[Michael Biebl]

Package: sysv-rc
Version: 2.88dsf-42
Severity: normal
File: /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d
User: pkg-systemd-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: integration

We should allow stop and status requests for masked services (same as
systemctl does). Here is an example where this is important:

start service
mask service
stop service

We need this kind of behaviour for socket/dbus activated services which
we want to mask during the upgrade, while still being able to stop the
currently running instance.

As for status: there is no good reason to ignore that request in
invoke-rc.d as you should be able to run that for masked services

Michael


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.9-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages sysv-rc depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.50
ii  insserv                1.14.0-5
ii  sysvinit-utils         2.88dsf-42

Versions of packages sysv-rc recommends:
ii  lsb-base  4.1+Debian12

Versions of packages sysv-rc suggests:
pn  bum           <none>
pn  sysv-rc-conf  <none>

-- debconf information excluded