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

[Ross Boylan]

On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 09:32:10PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> 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.
> 
Sounds reasonable to me.
Ross