Hi Athos -- this is an interesting one.
Forgive my ignorance, but per Colin's comments in
https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-debconf/debconf/-/merge_requests/10 "...
dpkg-reconfigure is simulating the process of reinstalling a package
without actually unpacking its files again" (which aligned with my
understanding of dpkg-reconfigure). Surely if it's "simulating [...]
reinstalling a package", then:
> dpkg-reconfigure --frontend=noninteractive postgresql-common
should:
> [result] in a call to
>
> deb-systemd-invoke stop 'postgresql.service',
After all, if it's simulating a reinstallation, shouldn't it restart the
service? Surely the error is the test suite assuming that it shouldn't?
You are certainly correct that:
> A possible solution to the issue would be to introduce the "-r" (or
> --no-stop-on-upgrade) option to dh_installsystemd in Ubuntu's
> postgresql-common d/rules. This should be enough to keep the
> expected (old) behavior in the package maintainer scripts.
(aside: I'd beg people to use the long option and never touch "-r" or
"-R" given we wound up having to grep thru maintscripts to find
instances of --no-{restart,stop}-{on,after}-upgrade when fixing the
debhelper issue -- not to mention they're just more readable)
Still, it seems to me that the assumption that dpkg-reconfigure *won't*
restart postgres is incorrect? Then again, if it's already commonly
expected behaviour, maintaining it may well be the wisest course. It
would mean that upgrades won't restart the service which may not be
desirable, although needsrestart may provide a fallback there?
Interested to hear any thoughts you may have on this -- in tinkering
with debhelper and dpkg-reconfigure, I'm painfully aware I'm messing
with widely used stuff with a long history of assumed quirks!
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