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

[Thorsten Glaser]

On Thu, 15 Aug 2013, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:

> Installation/uninstallation would not be broken, because the user would
> have been asked for the necessary info via debconf and the site list would
> have been created, so the init script doesn't fail.

Hm right. But the init script apparently…

> Can you point me to the relevant Policy remarks? I just read 9.3 and
> didn't find something that indicates that init scripts should not fail
> when the service they're trying to start didn't start.

… still should not be failing. https://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts
the last paragraph and the referenced bug’s messages hint at that,
although there is no policy (lowercase) on it yet, really. But that’s
what I was being told in IRC.

bye,
//mirabilos
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