package scripts calling update-rc.d on upgrades
On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 10:02:55PM +0200, Arthur Korn wrote:
> The fact that removed symlinks in /etc/rc?.d/ get recreated on
> update and installs after remove (as opposed to virgin/after
> purge) annoyed me for some time now. Couldn't this be fixed by
> only calling 'update-rc.d install' on install and not on update
> and only if the initscript is not already there?
Right, but the maintainers probably just don't know that (or didn't know
when they first added it to their package scripts). Bugs should be filed
against packages (and against debhelper and deb-make) in case they have a
update-rc.d line in postinst without checking $2 is empty.
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