]] Philip Hands
> Tollef Fog Heen writes:
>
> >This should be implemented in Debian Policy by declaring that a a
>^^^
> You've this doubled 'a' on two occasions in this text.
I'll fix that, thanks for spotting it.
>
Margarita Manterola writes ("Bug#904558: What should happen when maintscripts
fail to restart a service"):
> Sorry that it took so long to get back to this bug. The other bug took
> all the attention.
...
> If a postinst fails (for whatever reason), the package is left in a
> broken state
]] Ian Jackson
Hi,
> There may be good reasons not to treat daemon startup failure as a
> postinst failure, but the argument above is not one of them.
I think this is the core question. I largely agree with Ian here that
having postinsts fail is not that big a deal if they can't make forward
Ian Jackson wrote:
>> I personally think that it would make sense for the policy to at least
>> recommend what should happen with regards to maintainer scripts and
>> typical operations that are performed in them.
>
> There is already a section on error handling in scripts, which (IMO
>
Stuart Prescott dijo [Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 12:18:24PM +1000]:
> (...)
> That was perhaps also written before we started to realise that maintainer
> scripts are actually best avoided as they tend to be complicated, fragile,
> difficult to do right and make upgrades harder for the package
Dear Technical Committee members,
Our monthly meeting will take place tomorrow at 19:00 UTC.
These are the items in the agenda (also committed to git):
* Review of previous meeting AIs
* #904302 Whether vendor-specific patch series should be permitted in
the archive
* #904558 What should
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