Re: bug #23953 ae: postinst does not check for errors

1998-07-17 Thread Rob Browning
James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It is however reason to tell dpkg that something went wrong with > configuring ae. ... the postinst did not succeeded and should not > pretend it did. Perhaps something like this would be appropriate: #! /bin/sh set -e exit_code=0 set +e u

Re: bug #23953 ae: postinst does not check for errors

1998-07-17 Thread James Troup
Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > If update-alternatives fails, the install should *not* succeed. > > And why not? The update-alternatives failure does not impact the > further correct installation of the ae package, and after the > install ae will function completely as expected when

Re: bug #23953 ae: postinst does not check for errors

1998-07-17 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > > On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Herbert Xu wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 07:54:26PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > > > > > > > The function of these scripts i

Re: bug #23953 ae: postinst does not check for errors

1998-07-17 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote: > On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Herbert Xu wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 07:54:26PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > > > > > The function of these scripts is to conditionally install ae as "EDITOR" > > > using alternatives.

Re: bug #23953 ae: postinst does not check for errors

1998-07-17 Thread Dale Scheetz
severity 23953 wishlist quit On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Herbert Xu wrote: > reopen 23953 > quit > > On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 07:54:26PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > > > The function of these scripts is to conditionally install ae as "EDITOR" > > using alternatives. If this fails the rest of the ae in

Re: Dependency issue of the manpages

1998-07-17 Thread Keita Maehara
Package: debian-policy Version: 2.4.1.2 From: Keita Maehara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Dependency issue of the manpages Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 11:54:47 +0900 > I'm a maintainer of the package manpages-ja and I've received a bug > report which says "manpages-ja depends on man-db. It should sugge