Package: dpkg Version: 1.13.22 Severity: serious start-stop-daemon's --stop option doesn't work when upgrading when combined with --exec. As most daemons these days have abandoned "stop in preinst, upgrade, start again in postinst" in favour of "upgrade, restart in postinst", this means that upgraded daemons don't restart themselves, but do upgrade to the latest version. This means that users may think their system is upgraded, when in reality, it is still running the old binary. In the worst case, it can cause two instances of the daemon to be started.
This set of options should cause a noticeable warning when used, as it really doesn't make sense unless one is making use of "stop in preinst, upgrade, start again in postinst". Filing this as serious because recent security updates have been affected by this, and if we don't get some visibility on the problem soon, it will be too late to find many of the problems before etch is released. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.17.7 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages dpkg depends on: ii coreutils 5.97-3 The GNU core utilities ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries dpkg recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
