Debhelper-generated postinst and prerm vs. manual one
Roberto C. Sanchez
roberto at connexer.com
Sat Oct 21 18:31:34 UTC 2006
On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 01:42:04PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Oct 2006, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> > Except that this is horribly platform dependent. I mean, it is not
>
> There is absolutely nothing platform independent in saslauthd packaging, for
> platform == linux distribution :-)
>
> > I understand. However, I think that is horribly broken. If I run
> > `/etc/init.d/saslauthd start` (note I did not use invoke-rc.d) and the
> > daemon does not start, it is *wrong* to exit with a zero exit code. I
> > don't care what the policy or standard is, it is broken.
>
> Yes, it is broken. But the fix ain't for etch.
>
> > > We don't have a better choice right now. We can fix this Debian-wide for
> > > Etch+1.
> > >
> > Yes, but will that Debian-wide fix be "standard" outside of Debian? I'm
>
> Yes, if it is done at the LSB level, which we can certainly attempt to do.
>
OK. I am willing to concede the point and #257181 unfixed. That being
the case, we can get rid of the MAINTSCRIPT hack in the initscript and
get rid of the {pre,post}{rm,inst} scripts in the debian/ directory,
sinc ethe auto-generated scripts are suitable.
Regards,
-Roberto
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Roberto C. Sanchez
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