Bug#370471: use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in prerm scripts

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>]

On Mon, 05 Jun 2006, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> The policy manual says (9.3.2 Writing the scripts):
> 
>         The init.d scripts should ensure that they will behave sensibly
>         if invoked with start when the service is already running, or
>         with stop when it isn't, and that they don't kill
>         unfortunately-named user processes.
> 
> Would it be acceptable to change this to say "must ensure"?

Yes.  Not only that, "behaves sensibly" is to be defined as "starting an
already started service is not an error and must return status 0, and stopping
an already stopped service is not an error and must return status 0" as a
minimal implementation :)

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