Re: command -v in postinsts violating policy
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. 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.
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- mdz
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