Package: debhelper Version: 6.0.8 Severity: critical Justification: causes serious data loss
dh_installinit adds code to a package's .prerm script to stop the daemon at the beginning of the upgrade, and then adds code to restart it in the .postinst script. this results in important system daemons (including bind9 and rsyslog) being stopped for the entire duration of the upgrade - which could be a very long time in a dist-upgrade. in the case of bind9, that means no DNS for the entire network it is serving, which effectively breaks most network activity for that network. in the case of rsyslog, that means no logging for the host and for any other hosts/devices which use it as a syslog host - causing serious loss of irreplacable data. in the case of other daemons, whatever service they are providing is shut down for the duration of the upgrade. dh_installinit's default behaviour should be to not stop daemons, but to issue a reload, restart, or force-restart in the .postinst. better yet, have no default and force the package maintainer using dh_installinit to use their brains and their knowledge of their package to decide which is the most appropriate behaviour for their particular daemon. exit with an error message if dh_installinit is used without specifying stop & reload/restart behaviour for prerm and postinst. see bug numbers 453765 (bind) and 471051 (rsyslog) for more info. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_AU, LC_CTYPE=en_AU (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages debhelper depends on: ii binutils 2.18.1~cvs20080103-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii dpkg-dev 1.14.16.6 package building tools for Debian ii file 4.23-2 Determines file type using "magic" ii html2text 1.3.2a-3 An advanced HTML to text converter ii man-db 2.5.1-3 on-line manual pager ii perl 5.8.8-12 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii po-debconf 1.0.12.1 manage translated Debconf template debhelper recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
