On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 10:12:56PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 21:25:15 +0100, Harald Jenny wrote: > > > Dear Julien, > > > > I have received this answer from the upstream maintainer. > > > Debian packages are governed by Debian policy, not LSB. Quoting 9.3.2: > > These scripts should not fail obscurely when the configuration files > remain but the package has been removed, as configuration files remain > on the system after the package has been removed. Only when `dpkg' is > executed with the `--purge' option will configuration files be > removed. In particular, as the `/etc/init.d/<package>' script itself > is usually a `conffile', it will remain on the system if the package > is removed but not purged. Therefore, you should include a `test' > statement at the top of the script, like this: > test -f <program-executed-later-in-script> || exit 0
Ok thanks for the information I will talk with upstream how this can be done in the best way - would the rest of the changes be acceptable if this issue gets resolve? > > Cheers, > Julien Kind regards Harald -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101217171224.ga1...@harald-has.a-little-linux-box.at
