Sunday, June 25, 2006
BTS and Lintian
While working on the script to check for LSB compliance, and as a recommendation from Petter Reinholdtsen, I commited two bug reports to the BTS related to a wrong order of some scripts in the sysvinit package. Specifically alsa-utils and udev (Bug reports #375388 and #375389, respectively).
The reason for this, besides correcting the bug itself, is to raise the issue of correct script ordering. Currently, a developer cannot know if their package is correctly placed in the /etc/rc?.d symbolic pools until a bug is reported. If lintian and/or linda included some check for init script dependency information, i.e. basic LSB-compliance, the maintainers would remember to include this information and a script could correct the order for each individual system. The script needs to be developed for debian and this is one of the next steps on the current boot project.
The reason for this, besides correcting the bug itself, is to raise the issue of correct script ordering. Currently, a developer cannot know if their package is correctly placed in the /etc/rc?.d symbolic pools until a bug is reported. If lintian and/or linda included some check for init script dependency information, i.e. basic LSB-compliance, the maintainers would remember to include this information and a script could correct the order for each individual system. The script needs to be developed for debian and this is one of the next steps on the current boot project.
# posted by Carlos Villegas @ 12:08 PM 
