On Tue, 23 May 2006, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > Unfortunately sometimes the daemon does not stop for an error in the > maintainer script and that prevents upgrading for ever, even when > the package has been corrected. BTW, it seems a lack in the policy > to specify how the maintainers scripts should work on stop (i.e. what > returning as exit code when stop does not work for secondary reasons)
It is a case-by-case thing, I suppose. If the service cannot be completely stopped, the initscript *must* return a failure status. If, for your particular package, that is not critical at all, then yes, you should be ignoring it. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
