Bug#629902: dh_installinit: should support LSB compliant scripts

[Niels Thykier]

Felipe Sateler:
> Bringing in the debhelper maintainers into the loop again.
> 
> [...]
>> Should  an init script be executed, invoke-rc.d always returns the status
> code returned by the init script.
> 
> So it looks like this would be quite the change in behavior.
> 
> I wonder what the best approach it. OTOneH, I sympathize with Joey's
> argument that these checks should be centralized. OTOtherH, I'm not sure we
> can consider invoke-rc.d a debhelper implementation detail and change
> behaviour like this.
> 
> Maybe a new flag to invoke-rc.d could be used for this? I'm not sure.
> 

I am fine with using a new flag in a new compat level provided it is
available in stable at the time.  I.e. it would help a lot that the flag
is available in buster, so we can add it in the first compat level
released in bullseye.

Thanks,
~Niels