Re: Bug#802501: init script failures during postinst and related scripts

2015-10-23 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Daniel" == Daniel Pocock writes: I agree. I think Henrique's advice is correct as far as it goes. However as a distribution, I think we should explicitly encourage people to consider the consequences on dist-upgrade and other operations. For some daemons, where the system is likely to be

Re: Bug#802501: init script failures during postinst and related scripts

2015-10-23 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 22/10/15 12:26, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Tue, Oct 20, 2015, at 14:08, Daniel Pocock wrote: >> If postinst or one of the other scripts does a service restart and the >> restart operation fails, should the postinst abort or should it mask the >> error, continue and return success?

Re: Bug#802501: init script failures during postinst and related scripts

2015-10-22 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, Oct 20, 2015, at 14:08, Daniel Pocock wrote: > If postinst or one of the other scripts does a service restart and the > restart operation fails, should the postinst abort or should it mask the > error, continue and return success? Whatever makes more sense for that particular service, as i

Bug#802501: init script failures during postinst and related scripts

2015-10-20 Thread Daniel Pocock
Package: debian-policy Severity: important If postinst or one of the other scripts does a service restart and the restart operation fails, should the postinst abort or should it mask the error, continue and return success? If it continues, is there any other convention for reporting the problem,