severity 461349 normal
merge 461349 459611
thanks

Hello,

On Wed, 06 Feb 2008, A. Costa wrote:
> And killing its parents makes it go zombie.  (Sounds like a movie!)

This is "standard" *nix practice. If you kill the parents of a
process then no one is (at home) waiting for it and it wanders for
ever (like a zombie) in order to find someone who wants its exit code! :D

> I had first reported #461439 as a 'cupsys' bug, but now it looks more
> like a 'swish++' bug.  See also the last four messages here:
> 
>       #455731 dhelp cron failed
>       http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=455731

Other than the zombie part (which was created by the user), the bug
is the same as #459611. So I'm downgrading and merging. Please see
that bug report log for further information.

Regards,

Kapil.
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