[Pkg-exim4-users] fragility of split (was minor comment on exim README.Debian)

[Marc Haber]

On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 11:41:18AM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 07:18:37PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> > At an unknown third-party package's installation time?
> 
> Yes.  For example, if packages that messed with exim's setup restarted
> exim, forcing the breakage to be visible then.

Yes. Behavior like that is generally frowned upon in Debian though.
You are not supposed to restart a daemon belonging to a foreign package.

If so, it would be good to use invoke-rc.d which has hooks to allow
the local admin to interfere with restarting the other daemon.

> > > Hmm, maybe this belongs on the -dev list.
> > 
> > On which -dev list?
> 
> pkg-exim4-devel

Actually, I don't see any need to change anything in the exim4
packages to support things that are frowned upon, but already possible
and which are not used by any current third-party package.

Greetings
Marc

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