Debian Bug report logs - #18102
debmake: postinst update-rc.d line should check if init.d script is present

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: phil@hands.com

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: debmake: postinst update-rc.d line should check if init.d script is present

Date: 11 Feb 1998 15:03:13 -0000

Package: debmake
Version: 3.5.8

Hi,

It seems that people sometimes remove /etc/init.d/ppp.  When ppp is
subsequently upgraded, the update-rc.d line in ppp's postinst (that was
added by debstd) bombs out because /etc/init.d/ppp is missing, and maikes
the postinst fail.

the line inserted by debmake should check if the /etc/init.d/ppp file exists
before running update-rc.d

Cheers, Phil.

-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.0 (unstable)
Kernel Version: Linux palm 2.0.32 #1 Wed Dec 10 17:24:06 GMT 1997 i486 unknown

Versions of the packages debmake depends on:
dpkg-dev	Version: 1.4.0.20
file	Version: 3.20.1-8
fileutils	Version: 3.16-5
patch	Version: 2.5-1
perl	Version: 5.004.04-4
ed	Version: 0.2-15
gawk	Version: 3.0.3-0.1 (Provides Virtual Package awk)

Message #10 received at 18102@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>

To: phil@hands.com, 18102@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#18102: debmake: postinst update-rc.d line should check if init.d script is present

Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:27:41 -0800

phil@hands.com wrote:
> It seems that people sometimes remove /etc/init.d/ppp.  When ppp is
> subsequently upgraded, the update-rc.d line in ppp's postinst (that was
> added by debstd) bombs out because /etc/init.d/ppp is missing, and maikes
> the postinst fail.
> 
> the line inserted by debmake should check if the /etc/init.d/ppp file exists
> before running update-rc.d

I'd say this is hardly a bug in debmake. For one thing, debhelper has the
same problem. For another, there are many, many packages out there that
don't use debmake or debhelper for this task, and run update-rc.d by hand
(ex: apache). 

Perhaps this should be reassigned to update-rc.d, with the idea that it
should exit w/o an error if the conffile is missing?

-- 
see shy jo

Message #15 received at 18102@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>

To: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>, 18102@bugs.debian.org

Cc: phil@hands.com

Subject: Re: #18102: debmake: postinst update-rc.d line should check if init.d script is present

Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 19:02:50 +0100 (CET)

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On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Joey Hess wrote:

> phil@hands.com wrote:
> > It seems that people sometimes remove /etc/init.d/ppp.  When ppp is
> > subsequently upgraded, the update-rc.d line in ppp's postinst (that was
> > added by debstd) bombs out because /etc/init.d/ppp is missing, and maikes
> > the postinst fail.
> > 
> > the line inserted by debmake should check if the /etc/init.d/ppp file exists
> > before running update-rc.d
> 
> I'd say this is hardly a bug in debmake. For one thing, debhelper has the
> same problem. For another, there are many, many packages out there that
> don't use debmake or debhelper for this task, and run update-rc.d by hand
> (ex: apache). 
> 
> Perhaps this should be reassigned to update-rc.d, with the idea that it
> should exit w/o an error if the conffile is missing?

Yes, I'm reassigning this bug to dpkg.

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