On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 12:53:27AM -0500, sean finney wrote: > On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 12:34:21AM +0100, Nicolas Boullis wrote: > > But a user felt concerned that, in the future, he may remove the package > > and forget to delete the links. Then I thought I could remove the links > > in postrm on purge, considering they are part of the package's > > configuration (their absence being the default configuration). > > if the package is removed, the init script should just exit with 0 > status. removing the links during purge would also be appropriate.
So you think lintian is wrong to complain? > you could also install the links by default, but have some other > variable in /etc/default/$package control whether or not it actually > starts (i think somebody else has mentioned this too). Yes, I know such solutions but don't like them much. But if "my" solution is proved to be wrong, I'll implement such a workaround... Nicolas
