Re: use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in prerm scripts
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 10:21:53AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> There is nothing preferable about it. Stop targets *are* to exit with
> status 0 if the service is already stopped.
>
> The fact that Debian policy still has this as a "should" clause is just
> cruft that needs to be addressed. There are absolutely no acceptable
> exceptions to either this rule (stopping a stopped service is okay) nor to
> its counterpart (starting an already started service is okay), as far as I
> know.
>
Absolutely ack.
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Francesco P. Lovergine
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