diff -u lighttpd-1.4.19/debian/init.d lighttpd-1.4.19/debian/init.d
--- lighttpd-1.4.19/debian/init.d
+++ lighttpd-1.4.19/debian/init.d
@@ -76,8 +76,11 @@
             grep -q `cat $PIDFILE 2>/dev/null` 2>/dev/null ; do sleep 1; done
         $0 start
         ;;
+    status)
+        status_of_proc -p "$PIDFILE" "$DAEMON" lighttpd && exit 0 || exit $?
+        ;;
     *)
-        echo "Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload}" >&2
+        echo "Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload|status}" >&2
         exit 1
         ;;
 esac
diff -u lighttpd-1.4.19/debian/changelog lighttpd-1.4.19/debian/changelog
--- lighttpd-1.4.19/debian/changelog
+++ lighttpd-1.4.19/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+lighttpd (1.4.19-4ubuntu2) intrepid; urgency=low
+
+  * debian/control: Depend on lsb >= 3.2-14, which has the
+    status_of_proc() function.
+  * debian/init.d: Add the 'status' action (LP: #251924).
+
+ -- Andres Rodriguez <andreserl@ubuntu.com>  Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:47:48 -0500
+
 lighttpd (1.4.19-4ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low
 
   * Merge from debian unstable (LP: #233966), remaining changes:
diff -u lighttpd-1.4.19/debian/control lighttpd-1.4.19/debian/control
--- lighttpd-1.4.19/debian/control
+++ lighttpd-1.4.19/debian/control
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 Package: lighttpd
 Homepage: http://www.lighttpd.net
 Architecture: any
-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, lsb-base (>= 3.0-3), mime-support, libterm-readline-perl-perl
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, lsb-base (>= 3.2-14), mime-support, libterm-readline-perl-perl
 Provides: httpd, httpd-cgi
 Suggests: openssl, rrdtool, apache2-utils
 Conflicts: cherokee (<= 0.6.1-1)