Package: debian-policy Version: 3.8.3.0 Severity: minor Currently, Debian Policy makes a general statement that all Bourne shell scripts should start with set -e and does not (so far as I can see) make an exception for init scripts. I've seen several init scripts use set -e, which is usually a bad idea. It assumes that the shell function libraries used for status reporting are "set -e"-clean, which they may not be, and it causes the init scripts to exit in non-obvious ways and produce lots of debugging headache.
I think there's already a consensus that set -e is the wrong approach for init scripts and instead the exit status of key commands should be checked instead. I think Policy should reflect that consensus somewhere in the section on init scripts. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-686-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 debian-policy depends on no packages. debian-policy recommends no packages. Versions of packages debian-policy suggests: ii doc-base 0.9.5 utilities to manage online documen -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
