[Pkg-samba-maint] [samba] 03/04: Don't fail in postinst when removing old alternatives fails

[Steve Langasek]

On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 06:06:41PM +0000, Ivo De Decker wrote:
>     Don't fail in postinst when removing old alternatives fails

What is the rationale for this?  Ignoring failures from commands like
update-alternatives is a good way to leave cruft behind on the system that
will never be cleaned up.  Why would these commands fail, and how can we
better handle the specific failure case?

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