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Re: command -v in postinsts violating policy



On Tue, 28 May 2002, Matt Zimmerman wrote:

> On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 02:10:46PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote:
>
> > I am against ANY maintainer script redirecting stderr and stdout of a
> > program to /dev/null.  See 146774 for an example of what happens when this
> > is done.
>
> In general, I agree.

This I understand.

> In this case, I think that this is a sufficiently
> common problem that it justifies the existence of a tool.  Another such
> instance would be a simple program to check for the existence of a user or
> group, which seems to be done in all sorts of weird ways in maintainer
> scripts.

Huh?

How does that apply to what I said?


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