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The behavior of debhelper here is correct; any init script which exits
non-zero when trying to stop a daemon that isn't running is buggy and
should be fixed. This will be clarified in an upcoming update to Debian
policy, on which Ubuntu's packaging policy is based; however, this is
not a change to the intent of policy, which has always been that init
scripts not fail when called to stop an already-stopped process.
Note that debhelper ignoring init script failures on removal is
incorrect because if a daemon could *not* be stopped for whatever reason
and should have been, leaving it running after the package has been
removed constitutes a potential security hole.
** Changed in: debhelper (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
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debhelper script creates prerm script that causes daemon removal to be
impossible
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/119454
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