Bug#542112: shishi-kdc: Incorrect runlevels in init.d scripts header

[Simon Josefsson]

Petter Reinholdtsen <address@hidden> writes:

> [Simon Josefsson]
>> The patch looks trivially correct to me, so I have applied it.
>
> Good.  Please review the dependencies too, to verify that all the
> scripts/service it should start after / stop before are listed as
> dependencies.  I do not know the package well enough to know if there
> are something missing. :)

I can't think of any other dependencies.  The daemon needs the binary
itself (i.e., /usr); /var file system; syslog; and network to be up, but
I might have forgotten something.  Is there a common list of typical
dependencies somewhere?  I recall that the LSB section was written for
RedHat, which use slightly different semantics (i.e., they support /usr
on a remote file system, or at least did at some point).

>> Is it worth an upload to fix this?
>
> I believe so.  Everyone installing this package when dependency based
> boot sequencing get the init.d scripts inserted into the wrong rc?.d/
> directories, and at the moment dependency based boot sequencing is the
> default in Debian/unstabe.

Ouch.  I'll do an upload soon.

>> I'm not sure what the best practice is.
>
> The best practice is not very good, but it is to remove all rc?.d/
> symlinks during upgrade and reinsert the script symlinks to make sure
> the change take effect.  This is because of limitations in the
> update-rc.d interface. :(

Hm.  Are you saying just uploading the package with your patch won't be
sufficient?  Any pointers to other packages with similar problem, and
how it was fixed?

/Simon