how to deinstall not-running daemons

[Bernd Eckenfels <lists@lina.inka.de>]

Hello,

if I (or debheper) executes "/etc/init.d/package stop" before removing a
package containing a damon, and the daemon itself is using start-stop to be
killed, then the init.d script will fail if the daemon was not running, and
therefore the purge or remove of the package will fail.

How do i handle this? Do not return an error from the init.d script or do
not break on errors from the init.d script (in the later case dh_installinit
needs to be fixed). In the former case the policy (at least the example) is
wrong.

Greetings
Bernd
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