Ian Jackson wrote:
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.6.1.0
While trying to merge an NMU to my package, I spotted an idiom
obviously copied from the policy manual:
if [ -x /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d ] ; then
invoke-rc.d package <action>
else
/etc/init.d/package <action>
fi
This would be better expressed as
if type -p invoke-rc.d >/dev/null 2>&1; then
...
I think it's debatable whether searching the path for a command in an
init script is a good thing, but if we don't search the path for the
test we shouldn't do it when we actually execute the command, so the
code you quote is wrong either way.
