[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#656081: Bug#656081: /usr/sbin/service: disrespects policy-rc.d

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Mon, 16 Jan 2012, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> The problem with 'service' is that it actually tried to start apache
> while piuparts had created a policy-rc.d that prevents any service from
> being started in the chroot. (Apache could not be started in the chroot
> because :80 was already in use by the host).
> 
> I don't think 'service' should deviate from 'invoke-rc.d' in that case.

'service' is for use by the local admin, not packages, thus it has no
business trying to second guess anything, so yes, it IS supposed to ignore
policy-rc.d and builtin invoke-rc.d policies.  If the local admin told
'service' to start a service, it should do just that, even inside chroots.

Any package not using invoke-rc.d in the maintainer scripts to start/stop a
sysv initscript service is severly broken and has to be fixed, use of
'service' by a package's maintainer script OR inside the initscript is NOT
allowed.

> Should there be a lintian check for
> maintainer-script-uses-service-instead-of-invoke-rc.d?

That would be really nice...

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