Hello, this issue has been discussed some time ago:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/08/msg00299.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/08/msg00298.html I would like to hear your current opinion about this topic. IMHO removing a package should "just work" and currently this doesn't always. Details: several packages use something like: # Automatically added by dh_installinit if [ -x "/etc/init.d/$PACKAGE" ]; then if [ -x "`which invoke-rc.d 2>/dev/null`" ]; then invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $? else /etc/init.d/$PACKAGE stop || exit $? fi fi inside their prerm maintainer scripts. If stopping $PACKAGE through invoke-rc.d/init-script fails, removing the package fails as well. Using: invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || true /etc/init.d/$PACKAGE stop || true would be a replacement already used in some packages like for example at, binfmt-support, dnsmasq, drbd0.7-utils, freeradius, hal, scanlogd, sl-modem-daemon, snort. I scanned through a pool of about 2400 packages and found the following packages using the "stop || exit $?" construct: 915resolution: Steffen Joeris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> apcupsd: Samuele Giovanni Tonon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> atop: Edelhard Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> bacula-fd: John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> brltty: Mario Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cfengine2: Andrew Stribblehill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> clamav-daemon: Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ddclient: Torsten Landschoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dirmngr: Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> fnfxd: Agney Lopes Roth Ferraz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> fwlogwatch: Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gsm-utils: Mark Purcell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> hddtemp: Aurelien Jarno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> icecast2: Debian Icecast team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ifplugd: Oliver Kurth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> installation-report: Debian Install System Team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org> laptop-mode-tools: Bart Samwel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> libdevmapper1.02: Debian LVM Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> lighttpd: Debian lighttpd maintainers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> makedev: Bdale Garbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> netperf: Erik Wenzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> nscd: GNU Libc Maintainers <debian-glibc@lists.debian.org> openafs-client: Sam Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pcscd: Ludovic Rousseau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pdns-backend-ldap: Debian PowerDNS Maintainers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pdns-backend-pgsql: Debian PowerDNS Maintainers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pdns-backend-sqlite: Debian PowerDNS Maintainers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pdns-recursor: Debian PowerDNS Maintainers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> plptools: John Lines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> postgresql-7.4: Martin Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> preload: Kari Pahula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> procps: Craig Small <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quota: Michael Meskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> racoon: Ganesan Rajagopal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> samba: Eloy A. Paris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sensord: Aurelien Jarno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> slapd: Debian OpenLDAP Maintainers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sleepd: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> smartmontools: Guido Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> smokeping: Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spamassassin: Duncan Findlay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sqlrelay: Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sudo: Bdale Garbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sysfsutils: Martin Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> x11-common: Debian X Strike Force <debian-x@lists.debian.org> xfs: Debian X Strike Force <debian-x@lists.debian.org> xinetd: Thomas Seyrat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> regards, -mika-
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