Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org writes:
On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 10:42:35 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
Here is proposed wording, which hopefully reflects the subsequent
discussion. I'm looking for seconds.
[...]
Seconded.
Thanks! That's two, so I'm merging for the next release.
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Russ
On Tue, 01 Jun 2010, Russ Allbery wrote:
Here is proposed wording, which hopefully reflects the subsequent
discussion. I'm looking for seconds.
[...]
p
+ Be careful of using ttset -e/tt in fileinit.d/file
+ scripts. Writing correct fileinit.d/file scripts requires
On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 10:42:35 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
Here is proposed wording, which hopefully reflects the subsequent
discussion. I'm looking for seconds.
diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index d16df70..1871d4c 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -6011,7 +6011,7 @@
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes:
Currently, Debian Policy makes a general statement that all Bourne shell
scripts should start with set -e and does not (so far as I can see) make
an exception for init scripts. I've seen several init scripts use set
-e, which is usually a bad idea. It
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes:
martin f krafft madd...@debian.org writes:
I still think set -e is a good idea, but I realise it boils down to
preference. If your experience is representative, then it's probably
better to advocate not setting set -e in init scripts.
What about
also sprach Russ Allbery r...@debian.org [2010.03.01.0744 +0100]:
I think lsb-base should be fixed, but I also think set -e in an init
script is a bad idea. I would argue that specifically because running
commands that fail is a normal and expected init script operation, unlike
nearly every
martin f krafft madd...@debian.org writes:
I still think set -e is a good idea, but I realise it boils down to
preference. If your experience is representative, then it's probably
better to advocate not setting set -e in init scripts.
What about maintainer scripts?
It's almost always
also sprach Bastian Blank wa...@debian.org [2010.02.27.1320 +0100]:
set -e produces problems like this: #546743.
lsb-base should not get away with because we write shitty shell
code and don't do proper error handling, we expect everyone else to
do alike. If set -e is causing problems, remember
martin f krafft madd...@debian.org writes:
also sprach Bastian Blank wa...@debian.org [2010.02.27.1320 +0100]:
set -e produces problems like this: #546743.
lsb-base should not get away with because we write shitty shell code
and don't do proper error handling, we expect everyone else to do
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 03:44:53PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
That seems reasonable, although I think we should also point out the
problems with using set -e when starting a daemon, namely that you need to
be sure to wrap the start-stop-daemon invocation in a conditional so that
you can
On 29/12/2009 00:44, Russ Allbery wrote:
Steve Langasekvor...@debian.org writes:
I don't think that 'set -e' is wrong for init scripts, so much as the
LSB init script interfaces' requirement of 'set +e' is an unfortunate
design flaw. Still, as many init scripts are using
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 04:07:48PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
Currently, Debian Policy makes a general statement that all Bourne shell
scripts should start with set -e and does not (so far as I can see) make
an exception for init scripts. I've seen several init scripts use set -e,
which is
Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org writes:
I don't think that 'set -e' is wrong for init scripts, so much as the
LSB init script interfaces' requirement of 'set +e' is an unfortunate
design flaw. Still, as many init scripts are using
/lib/lsb/init-functions nowadays, I think it's worth calling
Hi!
On Thu, 2009-12-24 at 16:07:48 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.8.3.0
Severity: minor
Currently, Debian Policy makes a general statement that all Bourne shell
scripts should start with set -e and does not (so far as I can see) make
an exception for init
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.8.3.0
Severity: minor
Currently, Debian Policy makes a general statement that all Bourne shell
scripts should start with set -e and does not (so far as I can see) make
an exception for init scripts. I've seen several init scripts use set -e,
which is usually a
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