Bug#693688: The last patch to fix #691422 breaks other init scripts

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Hi,

Thanks for this fast response.

Am Mo den 19. Nov 2012 um 11:50 schrieb Didier 'OdyX' Raboud:
> Le lundi, 19 novembre 2012 10.51:21, Klaus Ethgen a écrit :
> > The last patch to fix #691422 will break init scripts of unrelated
> > software like for example exim. Please roll it back. I set the severity
> > to critical for this reason; breaking unrelated software.
> 
> As I can't verify your assertion here, using Wheezy's exim's initscript, and 
> as:
> 
> $ grep pidofproc /etc/init.d/exim4 
>   if pidofproc -p "$QRPIDFILE" >/dev/null; then
>   if pidofproc -p "$PIDFILE" >/dev/null; then
> 
> Could you please detail your "will break init scripts of unrelated software" ? 
> (tagging as +moreinfo)

Well, /etc/init.d/exim4 status end with return code 4 after the update;
in any cases. (That was how I saw it, as puppet do use it to see if the
daemon is running.)

> As discussed in #691422, pidofproc was never meant to be used with a different 
> arguments order,

I do not know about the intended use. I never dig into pidofproc before.
I just know that exim init script (and maybe other) is broken after
updating lsb-base.

> so I think it's not an lsb-base responsibility if other init scripts
> wrongly using it now fail when it enforces a correct behaviour.

That might be. But shouldn't it be checked before make an incompatible
change and notifying the relevant maintainers?

> For now, I'm downgrading this to serious.

No problem with that. I set the severity just according the
corresponding notes in bugreport.

Regards
   Klaus
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