severity 407132 minor
thanks,
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 01:29:12PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Package: hal
> Version: 0.5.8.1-6
> Severity: serious
> Justification: Policy 9.3.3.2
>
>
> The hal postinst restarts a provided daemon directly, without consulting
> policy-rc.d.
>
> More detailed, it adds a subscript for dbus to maintain, force-reloads dbus
> and then directly restarts that specific subscript (probably to force-restart
> that sub-daemon but no other dbus-maintained daemons).
>
>
> Debian Policy 9.3.3.2 states that "package maintainer scripts must use
> `invoke-rc.d' to invoke the `/etc/init.d/*' initscripts, instead of calling
> them directly.".
>
>
> I can only interpret the dbus subscript as indirectly being part of the
> `/etc/init.d/*' initscripts.
Maybe, but is is _not_ managed by sysvinit but by the dbus init scripts, thus
it can't use invoke-rc.d. While i agree it's not as nice it coulde be, i don't
see a real solution untill we get an init system that properly supports events
Sjoerd
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