Package: heimdal-kdc Version: 1.3.1.rc2.dfsg.1-3 Severity: normal The current heimdal-kdc init script uses set -e, which is generally considered a bad idea. See, for instance, /etc/init.d/skeleton:
# Do NOT "set -e" The problem with set -e for init scripts is that Debian Policy requires that things that will result in non-zero exit statuses be regarded as success, such as starting something that's already running or stopping something that's already stopped. While you can carefully check all exit statuses in a way that's safe for set -e, it's annoying and tricky to do and it's usually easier to just not use it. I discovered this problem when I was upgrading the heimdal-kdc package and the new package could not install because I'd stopped the KDC already and /etc/init.d/heimdal-kdc stop was failing (due to set -e) because it couldn't stop the servers. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686-bigmem (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
