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

Control: retitle -1 pidofproc enforces the presence of pathname, thereby breaking wrong uses of it
Control: severity -1 important
Control: tag -1 +wontfix

Hi Klaus,

as you might have seen, I have cloned this bug against exim4-base as the use
of pidofproc there is incorrect. That's where it should be fixed IMHO, as the
pidofproc syntax is documented that way, both in LSB and the lsb-base package
documentation for ages.

The pidofproc fix of #691422 only enforces the correct syntax.

Le lundi, 19 novembre 2012 12.30:39, Klaus Ethgen a écrit :
> > 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.

In fact, it was broken (and working by chance) before.

> > 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 what is worth, I checked through the Debian-provided initscripts to see if
the arguments of pidofproc were reversed in some: that was not the case. I
didn't think that some scripts would be using pidofproc wrongly.

So, for this bug, I'm downgrading it to important and tagging it wontfix, so
that other occurences of the exim4-base bug can be set as blocking it.

Cheers,

OdyX