Bug#479295: Bugs #450652 & #479295 Extending /lib/lsb/init-functions to be able to set start-stop-daemon arguments

tags 479295 +wontfix +help
tags 450652 +wontfix +help
thanks

Le 08.11.2007 21:22, Marc Haber, in #450652, a écrit :
> to start a daemon that does not write its pidfile itself, it might be
> needed to pass the --background and/or --make-pidfile to
> start-stop-daemon. Ths lsb-base function should offer a possibility to
> do so.

Le 04.05.2008 10:09, Marc Haber, in #479295, a écrit:
> please implement a way to pass a user-specified value for the
> --retry option in the start-stop-daemon call in killproc.

Hi Marc and thanks for your bugreports,

While I understand the rationale behind your two bugs, I think that
extending the functions currently defined in lsb-base' init-functions to
support more start-stop-daemon arguments will mostly increase the
complexity, for little benefit.

The current lsb-base README.Debian explicitely says:

> Note: Debian packages probably should use start-stop-daemon directly;
> however, these functions may be useful in porting init scripts from
> other distributions.

And I think that this recommendation still holds.

So I am hereby tagging these two bugreports as +wontfix as _I_ won't do
the work, but also as +help: if someone wants to provide patches, I'll
happily review them.

Cheers,

OdyX