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

[Simon Pepping]

On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 01:15:46PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> 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 :)

If it were my choice, I would do 'update-icon-caches -q $dirs || true'.
Several init scripts do similar things.

Regards, Simon

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