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package-supports-alternative-init-but-no-init.d-script

The package provides daemon, but contains no init.d script Packages that provide services (daemons), like cron daemon or web servers, may provide init.d script for starting that services with sysvinit. Optionally, packages can also provide integration with alternative init systems.

Package in question provides integration with some alternative init system, but corresponding init.d script is absent.

See init-d-script(5) for one of possible ways writing init.d scripts.

For more information please consult:

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 ea05801. For merge requests, please use the latest version in the Lintian check init-d.

Visibility: info

The following 326 source packages in the archive triggered the tag 687 times (in any Lintian version).

We found 118 overrides. The tag performed 83% of the time.