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Bug#976149: debian-policy: [9.3.2] drop requirement to not fail if /etc/default file is deleted



Hello,

On Tue 15 Dec 2020 at 06:02PM +01, Oxan van Leeuwen wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 14-12-2020 22:43, Sean Whitton wrote:
>> On Mon 30 Nov 2020 at 07:49PM +01, Bill Allombert wrote:
>>> 'not fail' here means that the script terminates with return code 0.
>>
>> This is how I would read it too.  Would a patch to add "(i.e. exit with
>> return code 0)" resolve the original submitter's concerns?
>
> Though I'm still not convinced it's a sensible requirement, that
> clarification would resolve my main concern (i.e. having to fix init
> scripts to work with an absent defaults file). By the way, there's an
> identical requirement a few paragraphs before, so it might be good to
> insert the same clarification there as well.

Okay, cool.  Patches welcome!

-- 
Sean Whitton

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