Ian Jackson writes:
> Alexandre Detiste writes ("Re: Removal of upstart integration"):
>> Please also sprinkle these maintainers scripts with some
>>
>> rmdir /etc/init --ignore-fail-on-non-empty
>
> That should be
>
> rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty /etc/init
>
> in case an environment variable is set requesting traditional
> (non-GNU) positional option parsing.
While it doesn't hurt here, I think people are on their own if they set
POSIX_CORRECTLY or so (or include another incompatible `rmdir` in
$PATH).
Arguably `dpkg` could also run maintainer scripts in a more controlled
environment so less random variables affect the maintainer scripts.
Ansgar
