On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 03:20:34PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > 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.
But it had the major drawback that you could not fix the issue when the fix required to install more packages, which is common. So I am also in favor. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.
