Package: sysvinit-utils Version: 2.88dsf-59.3 Severity: minor There are a huge number of spelling and terminology mistakes in this package.
One of them in particular which led me to expect incorrect behavior was from the man page: "PIDFILE (none means no PID file)" In this case, the word "none" is a literal, instead of an absence of. I would suggest simply quoting the word none. If PIDFILE is in fact unset or zero-length, it is automatically set like so: /lib/init/init-d-script # Do not use pid file if $PIDFILE is 'none'. Otherwise, generate from # $NAME or use the value provided by the init.d script. if [ none = "$PIDFILE" ] ; then PIDFILE= elif [ -z "$PIDFILE" ] ; then PIDFILE=/var/run/$NAME.pid fi Alternately, a complete re-wording of the sentence may be reasonable. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages sysvinit-utils depends on: ii init-system-helpers 1.29 ii libc6 2.22-7 ii startpar 0.59-3 sysvinit-utils recommends no packages. Versions of packages sysvinit-utils suggests: pn bootlogd <none> pn sash <none> -- no debconf information