Bug#904302: Whether vendor-specific patch series should be permitted in the archive

2018-09-19 Thread Ian Jackson
Philip Hands writes ("Bug#904302: Whether vendor-specific patch series should be permitted in the archive"): > Possibly also with something like this?: > > Post-Buster this should be implemented in Debian Policy by > declaring that a package MUST NOT contain a non-default series >

Bug#904558: What should happen when maintscripts fail to restart a service

2018-09-19 Thread Ian Jackson
Stuart Prescott writes ("Bug#904558: What should happen when maintscripts fail to restart a service"): > Ian Jackson wrote: > > When I wrote that, it didn't occur to me that anyone would think that > > a failure by a postinst script to perform an intended operation should > > be treated any other

Bug#904558: What should happen when maintscripts fail to restart a service

2018-09-19 Thread Ian Jackson
Tollef Fog Heen writes ("Bug#904558: What should happen when maintscripts fail to restart a service"): > Ian Jackson: > > There may be good reasons not to treat daemon startup failure as a > > postinst failure, but the argument above is not one of them. > > I think this is the core question. I

Bug#904302: Whether vendor-specific patch series should be permitted in the archive

2018-09-19 Thread Philip Hands
Tollef Fog Heen writes: > ]] Philip Hands > >> Tollef Fog Heen writes: >> >> >This should be implemented in Debian Policy by declaring that a a >>^^^ >> You've this doubled 'a' on two occasions in this text. > > I'll fix t

Bug#904558: What should happen when maintscripts fail to restart a service

2018-09-19 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 10:04:26PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Ian Jackson > > Hi, > > > There may be good reasons not to treat daemon startup failure as a > > postinst failure, but the argument above is not one of them. > > I think this is the core question. I largely agree with Ian he