* Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20070127 18:15]: > On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 04:53:45PM +0100, Michael Prokop wrote:
> > You are stopping powertweakd manually without taking care of policy > > set by policy-rc.d. Please use the invoke-rc.d mechanism instead. > > See Debian policy section 9.3.3 => > > http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html > As you will have seen from looking at the relevant parts of the package > update-rc.d is inappropriate for this situation: the whole point here is > that the init script being worked around doesn't support the stop target. Yes, I was aware of the text in /var/lib/dpkg/info/powertweakd.preinst: # Since some earlier versions of the powertweak package didn't stop the # powertweakd daemon prior to removal we do so here. Don't check for # upgrades for simplicity. So my proposal for use of 'dpkg --compare-versions ...' would be fine. If we have a recent enough package version the preinst script could use invoke-rc.d (if needed at all), for older versions your start-stop-daemon mechanism could be used without any further changes. > > If you really have to fix a problem of older package version(s) > > please consider use of something like 'dpkg --compare-versions ...'. > I'll give it some consideration, but not until the current version has > propagated into etch. Given that this has been present since 2001 > without being noticed it doesn't seem to cause too many practical > problems. Ok. regards, -mika-
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