Hello, I am trying to upgrade apt-cacher to Standards version 4.1.3. In particular using DISABLED=yes|no in /etc/defaults is now prohibited.
apt-cacher can be run as a daemon or from /etc/inetd.conf and this configuration is set in response to a debconf question. I have a working version of the postinst which I believe complies with the new policy by no longer changing a value in /etc/default/apt-cacher, however it contains multiple calls to update-rc.d (one to register the init file and then calls to enable/disable as appropriate in response to db_get). This produces the lintian error: duplicate-updaterc.d-calls-in-postinst. Is my approach flawed or is lintian being overzealous? Any other suggestions? A pruned version of postinst is below. Thanks for your help. Mark # Split of standard dh_installinit block. invoke-rc.d at end of script if [ "$1" = "configure" ] || [ "$1" = "abort-upgrade" ]; then if [ -x "/etc/init.d/apt-cacher" ]; then update-rc.d apt-cacher defaults >/dev/null fi fi case "$1" in reconfigure|configure) db_get apt-cacher/mode case "$RET" in daemon) echo "Setup apt-cacher running as standalone daemon." update-inetd --remove "3142\s.+/usr/sbin/apt-cacher" # PCRE update-rc.d apt-cacher enable > /dev/null ;; inetd) echo "Setup apt-cacher running from /etc/inetd.conf." update-inetd --add "3142\tstream\ttcp\tnowait\twww-data\t/usr/sbin/apt-cacher\tapt-cacher\t-i" update-rc.d apt-cacher disable > /dev/null ;; manual) # Disable inetd and daemon update-inetd --remove "3142\s.+/usr/sbin/apt-cacher" # PCRE update-rc.d apt-cacher disable > /dev/null cat <<EOF Manual configuration of apt-cacher startup selected. No changes made. If you are operating legacy CGI mode, this is deprecated and you really should consider changing to one of the daemon modes. See cgi_advise_to_use and cgi_redirect in man apt-cacher(8) for help in redirecting your clients. To change your choice, run dpkg-reconfigure apt-cacher EOF ;; esac db_stop ;; abort-upgrade|abort-remove|abort-deconfigure) ;; *) echo "postinst called with unknown argument \`$1'" >&2 exit 1 ;; esac if [ "$1" = "configure" ] || [ "$1" = "abort-upgrade" ]; then if [ -x "/etc/init.d/apt-cacher" ]; then invoke-rc.d apt-cacher start || exit $? fi fi exit 0