Sam Hartman <hartm...@debian.org> writes: >>>>>> "Marvin" == Marvin Renich <m...@renich.org> writes:
> Marvin> As discussed on debian-devel starting at [1], I would like a > Marvin> comment added to Section 6.4 "Best practices for maintainer > Marvin> scripts" that recommends preventing the postinst script from > Marvin> returning failure when a service fails to start. > I strongly support this practice. I'm also in favor. However, this is a very substantial change to Debian practice, and I'm not sure what process should be used for making this kind of decision. This wasn't a gap in our specification; rather, the previous standard was explicitly chosen (by at least some folks). Failure to install was intentional and believed better since it didn't hide service failures. I feel like this would benefit from a broader discussion than just the Policy list, but I'm not sure how to go about that, or what teams in particular should weigh in. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
