Bug#933109: package-supports-alternative-init-but-no-init.d-script produces too many false positives

[Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.16.0
Severity: normal

Hi,

this is a follow-up to #931889.
This bug report has been marked as fixed by downgrading the severity
from important to minor.

The underlying issue is still, that this test is currently way too
primitive and produces too many false positives to be actually useful.
In #931889 I already listed some cases, where those false-positives are
triggered.

Regards,
Michael


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils                       2.32.51.20190707-1
ii  bzip2                          1.0.6-9.2
ii  diffstat                       1.62-1
ii  dpkg                           1.19.7
ii  dpkg-dev                       1.19.7
ii  file                           1:5.37-4
ii  gettext                        0.19.8.1-9
ii  gpg                            2.2.17-3
ii  intltool-debian                0.35.0+20060710.5
ii  libapt-pkg-perl                0.1.36+b1
ii  libarchive-zip-perl            1.64-1
ii  libcapture-tiny-perl           0.48-1
ii  libcgi-pm-perl                 4.44-1
ii  libclass-accessor-perl         0.51-1
ii  libclone-perl                  0.41-1+b1
ii  libdigest-sha-perl             6.02-1+b1
ii  libdpkg-perl                   1.19.7
ii  libemail-valid-perl            1.202-1
ii  libfile-basedir-perl           0.08-1
ii  libio-async-perl               0.74-1
ii  libipc-run-perl                20180523.0-1
ii  liblist-compare-perl           0.53-1
ii  liblist-moreutils-perl         0.416-1+b4
ii  libmoo-perl                    2.003004-2
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl  1.2.0-13
ii  libpath-tiny-perl              0.108-1
ii  libtext-levenshtein-perl       0.13-1
ii  libtimedate-perl               2.3000-2
ii  libtry-tiny-perl               0.30-1
ii  libtype-tiny-perl              1.004004-1
ii  liburi-perl                    1.76-1
ii  libxml-simple-perl             2.25-1
ii  libyaml-libyaml-perl           0.79+repack-2
ii  man-db                         2.8.5-2
ii  patchutils                     0.3.4-2
ii  perl                           5.28.1-6
ii  t1utils                        1.41-3
ii  xz-utils                       5.2.4-1

Versions of packages lintian recommends:
ii  libperlio-gzip-perl  0.19-1+b5

Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn  binutils-multiarch     <none>
ii  libhtml-parser-perl    3.72-3+b3
ii  libtext-template-perl  1.55-1

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