maintainer-script-calls-start-stop-daemon

The maintainer script seems to call start-stop-daemon directly. Long-running daemons should be started and stopped via init scripts using invoke-rc.d rather than directly in maintainer scripts.

For more information please consult:

Running init scripts (Section 9.3.3.2) in the Debian Policy Manual

The tag is present in Lintian version 2.114.163. That is the most recent version we know about.

We use semantic versions. The patch number is a commit step indicator relative to the 2.114.0 release tag in our Git repository.

You can find the detection logic for this version at commit 8ab6976. For merge requests, please use the latest version in the Lintian check scripts.

Visibility: warning

Renamed from:

maintainer-script-should-not-use-start-stop-daemon

The following 1 source packages in the archive triggered the tag 1 times (in any Lintian version).

We found 1 overrides. The tag performed 0% of the time.

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"start-stop-daemon" [postinst:78]