[pkg-firebird-general] Bug#542195: Bug#542195: firebird2.1: Incorrect provides and dependencies in init.d script

[Damyan Ivanov]

tags 542195 pending
thanks

Hello Petter,

-=| Petter Reinholdtsen, Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 01:59:41PM +0200 |=-
> 
> Package:  firebird2.1-super firebird2.1-classic
> Version:  2.1.0.15199~alpha1.ds1-1
> Severity: important
> Tags:     patch
> User:     initscripts-ng-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Usertags: incorrect-provides incorrect-dependency
> 
> With dependency based boot sequencing, I discovered what I believe is
> a bug in the init.d script.  The provides should en unique and
> preferably the name of the script.  The script uses files in /usr/,
> and because of this should depend on $remote_fs.  The programs uses
> syslog, which make me believe it should start after the syslog
> collector and depend on $syslog.  The empty should-* headers do not
> have any effect and can be dropped. I notice that the update-rc.d call
> installs useless stop symlinks for the firebird2.1-classic.init script
> in runlevels 0, 1 and 6.  I choose not to replicate this in the
> header, as the script obviously only should run during boot to create
> the required directories.

Thanks for the pointers and the patch. Most of it will be included in 
the upcoming upload. The only thing I am not sure about is syslog 
usage. I don't think firebird uses syslog (it logs to 
/var/log/firebird2.1.log, by itself). Can you tell me how did you 
determine this?

Thanks.

-- 
dam
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