The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 5185f2d9c3ef1b2b2362d3340292494afba6cc90
Author: Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org>
Date: Mon Jan 5 00:07:37 2009 +0200
s-s-d: Clarify that the signal sent by default is TERM not KILL
Closes: #507568
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index be33ceb..44c5122 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2009-01-05 Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org>
+
+ * man/start-stop-daemon.8: Clarify that the signal sent by default
+ is TERM not KILL.
+
2009-01-04 Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org>
* utils/start-stop-daemon.c (signal_nr): Initialize with SIGTERM
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index abaa999..e521faa 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -44,6 +44,8 @@ dpkg (1.15.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
* Fix typo in package description ('privides' -> 'provides').
Thanks to Pascal De Vuyst <pascal.devu...@gmail.com>. Closes: #510755
* Make dpkg log files user readable. Closes: #480556
+ * Clarify in the start-stop-daemon man page that the signal sent by default
+ is TERM not KILL. Closes: #507568
[ Raphael Hertzog ]
* Enhance dpkg-shlibdeps's error message when a library can't be found to
diff --git a/man/start-stop-daemon.8 b/man/start-stop-daemon.8
index c07411d..7e8bbe2 100644
--- a/man/start-stop-daemon.8
+++ b/man/start-stop-daemon.8
@@ -24,8 +24,8 @@ will scan the process table looking for any processes which
match the process name, uid, and/or gid (if specified). Any
matching process will prevent
.BR \-\-start
-from starting the daemon. All matching processes will be
-sent the KILL signal if
+from starting the daemon. All matching processes will be sent the TERM
+signal (or the one specified via \fB\-\-signal\fP or \fB\-\-retry\fP) if
.BR \-\-stop
is specified. For daemons which have long-lived children
which need to live through a
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