According to Sean 'Shaleh' Perry: > > If I'm not mistaken that is not nessecary unless we plan to move > > all .deb archives over to .lsb too, which is not going to happen. > > Debian will stay Debian we just need to make it possible to install > > .lsb files *as well* > > we can support the installation of lsb binaries HOWEVER the lsb spec adds a > 'status' option to init scripts which lsb packages may expect to exist. So at > the bare minimum we need to support that.
Well no, packages in .lsb that have an /etc/init.d/initscript must support the 'status' option but Debian packages don't have to do that as they are Debian packages and not .LSB packages. > If we actually want to call Debian an LSB system that involves the work I > mentioned above. There's probably lots to do for LSB compliance but adding a status option to every /etc/init.d/* script is probably not part of it. Disclaimer: If I'm wrong then the LSB spec is even more stupid than I thought... Mike. -- "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former" -- Albert Einstein.
