[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Pkg-mailman commit - rev 741 - trunk/debian

[Thorsten Glaser]

On Thu, 15 Aug 2013, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:

> Thinking a bit more about this. It seems weird that we exit 0 when a site
> list does not exist. Afterall, the daemon is not started so the init
> script should actually be failing, right?

No, absolutely not. I actually read about that when writing an init
script for JBoss internally at $workplace recently, and Policy says
that initscripts should fail gracefully in order to not break either
boot nor package installation/uninstallation (which normally starts
and shuts down the service).

In the specific case of mailman, the package would indeed fail to
dpkg-configure were you to return false.

bye,
//mirabilos
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15:41⎜<Lo-lan-do:#fusionforge> Somebody write a testsuite for helloworld :-)