Hi, Josip Rodin wrote:
> I also think this "should" might as well be changed into a "must" these > days, because the ambiguity is allowing corner cases - I recently heard that > mcollective doesn't support a "restart" action, rather it does "stop" then > "start" when you tell it to restart something. Arguably this is simply a bug > in that software, but we should be able to tell people - you can rely on all > of these actions being there on all of our init scripts. > > (Certainly if the same argument is being made for "you can rely on > debian/rules being a makefile", I fail to see the point of not doing > the same here.) To save time for others who received this email with the unassuming subject of "ditto": Josip is talking about tightening the requirement in policy for init scripts to support start, stop, restart, and force-reload actions to something people can start relying on (and which it would be release-critical not to provide). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120418165309.GC28058@burratino
