On Sunday, December 15, 2013 08:33:34 AM Bas Wijnen wrote: > On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 08:27:45PM +0530, V.Krishn wrote: > > On Friday, December 13, 2013 08:31:51 PM you wrote: > > > Was going through LSB Core 4.1. > > > > > > I am looking at LSB core section 20.8 ... > > > <quote> > > > Confirming.... set -e > > > </quote>
Apologies. > > This is a useless quote. You mean: > > Conforming scripts shall not specify the "exit on error" option (i.e. > > set -e) when sourcing this file, or calling any of the commands thus > > made available. > > From the bugs you cite, the consensus in Debian seems to be that this is > an unreasonable requirement which leads to buggy code. However, since > it is a requirement, we follow it and try to be very careful to avoid > bugs. > > > > does this mean /etc/init.d/apache2 will not have "set -e" set in it > > According to LSB that is what it means. According to our own policy, > set -e is acceptable, as long as any function returning an error is > handled properly. Note that this script does not use set -e in > unstable; I don't know if this was a recent change. > > > Ok, found some references for ongoing efforts: Re quote: "Ok, found some references for the same issues:" > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/04/msg00248.html > > > > and at bugs.debian.org: > > #546743 > > #562506 > > #661002 > > #616131 > > These are all closed bugs, not "ongoing efforts". I'm not sure what > your question is. In any case, nobody would complain if lsb-core would > be fixed to allow set -e. However, nobody seems to be interested in > doing the work either. > > > It would be nice if in Release Notes(if not too lengthy) or a wiki page > > lists short notes pointing to LSB spec, for items having partial or non > > implementation. > > I'm not sure what you mean here. For the next release this is no > problem. Having a wiki page that lists out points from LSB specs that have not been followed or supported. > If you find an init script which uses set -e without handling > errors properly, it's a bug which should be reported. Apache2 is not an > example of this; it doesn't use set -e. hmm, just checked jessie package and its not there. :-) Have not checked other init scripts but seems its being accepted and implemented. Thanks. -- Regards. V.Krishn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201312151448.56703.vkris...@gmail.com
