Bug#691422: init-functions: order of arguments is not context-free

Arno Töll <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.lsb
Message-ID <509F93A5.5010405__48871.1026184776$1352635406$gmane$org@debian.org>
Hi,
On 11/10/2012 05:16 PM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote:
>> I'll leave it up to Didier as to whether to apply it or just leave the
>> bug "wontfix".
> 
> Yay, thanks! I have committed it to the packaging repository.

Indeed, thanks!

> Now I am slightly relunctant to add it to wheezy, not sure it would warrant an 
> unblock (although [0] shows no forecoming problem). This fix could potentially 
> break existing initscripts (admittedly relying on that broken behaviour), so I 
> have uploaded to experimental for now. 

"Relying" on that broken behavior essentially means to trigger a bug,
e.g. see #691365. If there are more such false uses of pidofproc, they
should really be fixed - even in Wheezy. That said, the Release Team
recently made higher barriers for unblocks as we're coming closer to a
release.


-- 
with kind regards,
Arno Töll
IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC
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