hardy init script status action

[Steve Langasek]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 11:33:28AM -0700, Neal McBurnett wrote:
> As for the other daemons: given the simple nature and low risk of the
> change, I'd rather be able to say from now on that status works, and
> can be integrated in ebox etc, than to have to explain to folks for 5
> years in our documentation etc. that "if you are on hardy, you need to
> run this oddball script rather than using the lsb standard way of
> querying the status".

One of the points that has been made in this thread is that for intrepid and
beyond, we'll be trying to move things directly into upstart - so the init
scripts would be completely obsolete, and the recommended method for
querying status will differ between hardy and intrepid anyway.

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