severity 23953 wishlist quit On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Herbert Xu wrote:
> reopen 23953 > quit > > On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 07:54:26PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > > > The function of these scripts is to conditionally install ae as "EDITOR" > > using alternatives. If this fails the rest of the ae install is not > > effected, and ae will be fully functional. > > Sure, so there is no problem setting -e then. If I set -e and update-alternatives fails then the script fails and the install fails. Without set -e if update-alternatives fails, the script does not, and the install succeeds. The purpose of the set -e is to keep the script from continuing if there is a failure early in the process. If the script is not aborted at that time and continues the results could be disasterous. This is not the case in this script. > > > As ae may be the only editor available at the moment, it would be > > undesirable for the install/upgrade to fail because the > > update_alternatives calls failed, leaving the machine without an editor > > How so? The only difference would be that now dpkg knows about it. If > update-alternatives is going to fail, it will fail whether or not you set -e. > Yes, and I don't care one twit about that failure, so I don't want it to effect the rest of the installation, as it will if set -e is used. > > I am closing this bug, but I think policy should reflect the reason set -e > > is used, and when it is counter productive, its use should not be > > required. > > I disagree. You haven't given a good enough reason for it to not have -e. > Yes, I have. Since you don't agree, we need some third party arbitration, which is why I cc'd the policy group in my original closing of this bug report. Until a policy decission is made, I see no value in continuing to insist on a bug report. > -- > Debian GNU/Linux 2.0beta is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) > Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ > PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt > > Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_- Author of "The Debian Linux User's Guide" _-_-_-_-_-_- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (850) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 _-_-_-_-_-_- If you don't see what you want, just ask _-_-_-_-_-_-_- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
