Bug#54138: pre-removal scripts fail when /etc/init.d/* stop fails

[Brian Almeida <bma@debian.org>]

severity 54138 normal
thanks

This is in NO WAY release critical.
On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 12:06:26PM -0600, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote:
> Package: general
> Version: N/A;
> Severity: important
> 
> Many pre-removal scripts (eg. tinyproxy) for daemons in /etc/init.d fail
> when the daemon isn't running, because /etc/init.d/* stop fails when it
> cannot stop a process that is not running.
> 
> Suggest different return code for `cannot stop' errors that dpkg will
> ignores. 
> 
> -- System Information
> Debian Release: potato
> Architecture: i386
> Kernel: Linux dlitz 2.2.13 #7 Mon Jan 3 14:10:01 CST 2000 i686
> 
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