Bug#445489: Reminder about LSB conformance

[Peter Eisentraut]

The advice in the previous message is bogus.  What LSB says is that conforming 
applications should not use set -e in their init scripts.  Debian, however, is 
a (possibly) conforming *implementation* that is supposed to host (possibly) 
conforming *applications*.  The advice on set -e has no relevance there, 
unless you want to create packages that you can also use on other conforming 
LSB implementations (i.e., other Linux distributions).



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Bug#445489: Reminder about LSB conformance

[C. Chad Wallace]

I noticed that the init script for at is intended to be LSB-compliant
(as most or all Debian init scripts are), so I thought I should point
this out:

The LSB 3.1 spec states, in section 20.8 "Init Script Functions":

"Conforming scripts shall not specify the "exit on error" option (i.e.
set -e) when sourcing this file, or calling any of the commands thus
made available."

So the script should not use "set -e".

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C. Chad Wallace, B.Sc.
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Debian Hint #5: If you need to build a custom kernel, use the
'make-kpkg' script found in the kernel-package package.



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