AFAIK, start-stop-daemon still defaults to refusing to stop a daemon if the executable has changed from the executable it initially started. Ie:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/sbin>/etc/init.d/dictd start Starting dictionary server: dictd. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/sbin>ps ax |grep dictd 21170 ? Ss 0:00 dictd 1.10.11: 0/0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/sbin>mv dictd dictd.orig [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/sbin>cp =ls dictd [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/sbin>/etc/init.d/dictd stop Stopping dictionary server: dictd (not running). [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/sbin>ps ax |grep dictd 21170 ? Ss 0:00 dictd 1.10.11: 0/0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/sbin>mv dictd.orig dictd [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/sbin>/etc/init.d/dictd stop Stopping dictionary server: dictd. Therefore if I were to take your advice that this bug is somehow RC, and change debhelper as you suggest today, I would in fact completly break upgrades of the majority of daemons in Debian. dh_installinit -n can be used to ditch debhelper's default init script starting code, and put in init script code that is tuned to the particular daemon. -- see shy jo
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