Bug#660722: #660722: mumble-server: Update fails if ICE used instead of DBUS

[Patrick Matthäi]

Am 02.03.2012 18:48, schrieb Alexander J. Trentini:
> Hi,

Hi

> 
> I'm sorry to bother you again, but it seems i have failed to explain the
> original intention of my bugreport or you have misunderstood me.
> 
> The point i wanted to make is not if the Debian default is DBUS or not.
> Quite frankly i think the default behaviour is not relevant here...
> 
> While your codesnippet is certainly the most clean way to circumvent
> problems while upgrading/patching the package mumble-server (thanks for
> that), i still think that the maintainer-script itself (postinst) or
> the init-script may need adaption (depending on the chosen
> configuration).

Sorry you are right, my answer was a bit too short.
The problem is, that there is no sane way to provide LSB headers which
depend on one of dbus or ice, so it is set to the default (in this
release) behaviour of the server package

> 
> I just wanted to question, if it is the "correct" or "best" way, that
> a package installation or update just breaks with a fatal error, if the
> user configured his piece of software other than the package maintainer
> thinks he has.

No it isn't. It was more a: your way is supported, but you didn't
changed all required configs (changing the depend on dbus in the config
init script).

> Or to put it in other words:
> If a software provides two ways of running it, shouldn't any automated
> script work *regardless* which of those two ways have been chosen?

As I stated above it is not possible here :/

> 
> Please correct me if i'm really that wrong and please don't think i want
> to get on your nerves or i just want to be right or something like that.
> I really only want to understand the matter!

No problem ;)

From my POV you just miss to adjust the init script


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