Bug#466083: debhelper: problem with update-icon-caches

[Josselin Mouette]

On dim, 2008-02-17 at 11:15 +0100, Simon Pepping wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 08:21:15PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > I guess we can display a big warning if gtk-update-icon-cache fails, and
> > exit without error to allow the upgrade to proceed nevertheless.
> > 
> > Would that be OK for you?
> 
> Would it not be better to keep the error exit code but make sure that
> it is not the exit code of the postrm script? A straightforward way to
> do that would be to add the true command after the update-icon-caches
> command. This shows that a failure of the update-icon-caches command
> is not fatal for the upgrade process.

As the update-icon-caches command is not really meant to be used outside
the debhelper scripts, I guess the effect would be the same. Changing
debhelper means rebuilding all packages using it. Changing the script
means it works right now for everyone. Pick your choice :)

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