Lintian tag: maintainer-script-calls-service

Type: error

Description (from lintian-explain-tags)

The maintainer script apparently runs the service command. This command is
reserved for local administrators and must never be used by a Debian
package.

Please replace with calls to update-rc.d(8) and invoke-rc.d(8). If your
package installs this service, this can be automated using
dh_installinit(1) or dh_installsystemd(1).

Please refer to Interfacing with init systems (Section 9.3.3) in the
Debian Policy Manual for details.

Visibility: error
Show-Always: no
Check: scripts
Renamed from: maintainer-script-should-not-use-service
This tag is experimental.

Affected packages

source version binary level tag count information
chemical-structures 2.2.dfsg.1-1 chemical-structures/2.2.dfsg.1-1 experimental maintainer-script-calls-service 1 "service" [postinst:28]
diaspora-installer 0.9.0.0+debian2+nmu1 diaspora-common/0.9.0.0+debian2+nmu1 experimental maintainer-script-calls-service 1 "service" [postrm:23]
diaspora-installer 0.9.0.0+debian2+nmu1 diaspora-common/0.9.0.0+debian2+nmu1 experimental maintainer-script-calls-service 1 "if service" [postrm:22]
diaspora-installer 0.9.0.0+debian2+nmu1 diaspora-installer/0.9.0.0+debian2+nmu1 experimental maintainer-script-calls-service 1 "if service" [postrm:25]
diaspora-installer 0.9.0.0+debian2+nmu1 diaspora-installer/0.9.0.0+debian2+nmu1 experimental maintainer-script-calls-service 1 "service" [postrm:26]
diaspora-installer 0.9.0.0+debian2+nmu1 diaspora-installer/0.9.0.0+debian2+nmu1 experimental maintainer-script-calls-service 1 "service" [postinst:78]
dokuwiki 2025-05-14.b+dfsg-6 dokuwiki-farm/2025-05-14.b+dfsg-6 experimental maintainer-script-calls-service 1 "& service" [postinst:12]
ikiwiki-hosting 0.20220717-2 ikiwiki-hosting-web/0.20220717-2 experimental maintainer-script-calls-service 6 "service" [postinst:61]
ikiwiki-hosting 0.20220717-2 ikiwiki-hosting-web/0.20220717-2+b1 experimental maintainer-script-calls-service 2 "service" [postinst:61]
trocla 0.6.0-1 trocla-puppetserver/0.6.0-1+b2 experimental maintainer-script-calls-service 8 "if service" [postinst:5]
uif 1.99.0-8 uif/1.99.0-8 overridden maintainer-script-calls-service 1 "service" [postinst:199]
uif 1.99.0-8 uif/1.99.0-8 overridden maintainer-script-calls-service 1 "service" [postinst:459]
wims-lti 0.4.4.1-17 wims-lti/0.4.4.1-17 experimental maintainer-script-calls-service 1 "service" [postinst:103]
wims-lti 0.4.4.1-17 wims-lti/0.4.4.1-17 experimental maintainer-script-calls-service 1 "(service" [postinst:102]