Testing LSB-compliance with Lintian

Tim Dijkstra newsuser at famdijkstra.org
Sat Aug 19 07:51:49 UTC 2006


On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 23:45:12 +0200
Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry.com> wrote:

> 
> [Tim Dijkstra]
> > Policy nowhere mandates LSB-compliance for init scripts or packages
> > as a whole. AFAIK it only talks about being an LSB host system. All
> > tests should be warnings IMHO.
>  
> So, yes, you are right that none of the checks discover policy
> violations, but they do make it easier to create a correct boot system
> for Debian, and thus should be visible for as many as possible. :)

Hmm, well I'm not a lintian maintainer, so I'll let them judge the
severity;)
Are you also trying to push this into policy? If you think it is that
important, than it should be mentioned there, shouldn't it?

grts TIm
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