Your message dated Sun, 11 Nov 2018 21:08:39 +0000
with message-id <[email protected]>
and subject line Re: Bug#710519: /etc/init.d/skeleton: skeleton file uses
internal API
has caused the Debian Bug report #710519,
regarding Update /etc/init.d/skeleton to stop checking $VERBOSE before calling
log_* functions
to be marked as done.
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710519: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=710519
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Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.13
Severity: normal
The new init.d-script-call-internal-API tag says:
W: libapache2-mod-shib2: init.d-script-call-internal-API etc/init.d/shibd
N:
N: The given init script call an internal API under /lib/init. /lib/init/rw
N: has gone away, and the scripts in /lib/init/*.sh represent internal
N: implementation details of initscripts. They are not public API for other
N: packages to use. Nonetheless, some packages incorrectly reference those
N: scripts, notably /lib/init/vars.sh.
N:
N: Severity: normal, Certainty: possible
N:
N: Check: init.d, Type: binary
but /etc/init.d/skeleton has:
# Load the VERBOSE setting and other rcS variables
. /lib/init/vars.sh
and then uses $VERBOSE extensively, and I don't see any other way for it
to be set. This is inconsistent; if what skeleton is doing is wrong, then
that file needs to be updated and we need to provide better guidance in
the Lintian tag as to how $VERBOSE is supposed to be handled.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.8-2-686-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.22-8
ii bzip2 1.0.6-4
ii diffstat 1.55-3
ii file 1:5.14-2
ii gettext 0.18.1.1-10
ii hardening-includes 2.3
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.28
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.30-6
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1
ii libclone-perl 0.34-1
ii libdpkg-perl 1.16.10
ii libemail-valid-perl 0.190-1
ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.03-1
ii libipc-run-perl 0.92-1
ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.33-1+b1
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-1
ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.06~01-2
ii libtimedate-perl 1.2000-1
ii liburi-perl 1.60-1
ii man-db 2.6.3-6
ii patchutils 0.3.2-1.1
ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.14.2-21
ii t1utils 1.37-2
Versions of packages lintian recommends:
pn libperlio-gzip-perl <none>
ii perl-modules [libautodie-perl] 5.14.2-21
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none>
ii dpkg-dev 1.16.10
ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.71-1
ii libtext-template-perl 1.45-2
ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
[2014-02-04 23:59] Petter Reinholdtsen <[email protected]>
> [Laurent Bigonville]
> > Lintian has just added a new "init.d-script-call-internal-API" check
> > which is triggered when a file inside the "/lib/init/" directory is
> > sourced.
> >
> > Removing the sourcing of "/lib/init/vars.sh" would also require to
> > remove the check of the VERBOSE variable.
>
> Who came up with the idea that /lib/init/vars.sh is an internal API? It
> is provided by initscripts for all init.d scripts to use. I created it
> to make it available for every script that wanted access to the
> variables defined there. The most used one is $VERBOSE.
I believe current version of Lintian (v2.5.111) does not have this
check. Closing bug.
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