Re: Bug#843727: fix inside

[Eric Valette <Eric.Valette@Free.fr>]

On 11/10/2016 01:28 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Hi Aurélien,
>
> Aurélien COUDERC <zecoucou@free.fr> (2016-11-10):
> > Committed, thanks.
> >
> > @all, in postinst I see that update-grub is called with
> >          update-grub || true
> > to ensure package installation succeeds even if it returns an error.
> >
> > Shouldn't we do the same with update-initramfs -u ?
> > Currently it's called as is so if returns non-zero it'll break package
> > install like #843727 due to set -e.
>
> I don't think that's reasonable. Debian Policy mandates proper error
> reporting, so as to stop the installation/update process if errors are
> encountered, see Debian Policy 6.1:
>
>   https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-maintainerscripts.html

System without initramfs will then fail installing the packages. I'm not 
sure it is normal for desktop-base to mandate update-initramfs or it 
should explicitly depend on it (and on grub BTW).

-- eric