Package: x11-common Version: 6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 Severity: wishlist Following the IRC discussion with Overfiend and later comments from gravity, here is the complaint written down as bug report:
please consider no longer using "set -e" in the Xsession script or at least set +e and -e later before/after the scripts in Xsession.d are interpreted. Reason: those scripts can be buggy and return with non-zero return codes. Their maintainers may even be unaware of the outcome because they are not testing it properly or don't handle all possible problems because of the "works-for-me" paradigm. Or even worse, they read that policy paragraph in their own way and interpret "or handle the exit status" as a real OR (and not every maintainer is a good shell programmer). I know this sounds a bit constructed but there are cases where it fails. And a simple error in some script should not make the whole startup system fail. Even interpreting the policy as "other should fix their crap, the bugs are there" is a bad excuse: the idea behind the policy was IMHO the requirement to write failure-tolerant/correcting scripts, while Xsession is deliberately designed to fail itself. Eduard. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.12 Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages x11-common depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.4.58 Debian configuration management sy ii debianutils 2.14.3 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii lsb-base 3.0-9 Linux Standard Base 3.0 init scrip x11-common recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
