Bug#471060: Info received (Bug#471060: debhelper, start-stop-daemon -exec, and restarting daemons during upgrade)

[Michael Biebl]

btw, I don't want to argue about having the default behaviour of dh_installinit changed (imho the current behaviour is fine as default behaviour).

1.) start the service on install (postinst)
2.) restart the service on upgrade (postinst)
3.) stop the service on remove (prerm)

What I used in rsyslog is
dh_installinit -r
and the following snippet in postinst (before the #DEBHELPER# stanza:

        # Stop the service on upgrades before it is started again.
        # dh_installinit -r will create the start code.
        if [ "$1" = configure ] && [ -n "$2" ]; then
                if [ -x "/etc/init.d/rsyslog" ]; then
                        invoke-rc.d rsyslog stop || true
                fi
        fi



Cheers,
Michael

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But what would be helpful though, is to actually have a switch for dh_installinit, which does: It would be nice, if debhelper could generate a code (similar to that) automatically for me.

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