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Re: Sourcing init-functions



On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 08:50:04AM +0100, Gabor Gombas wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 02:36:48AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:

> > Looks like nonsense to me.  I think you should file a bug.  For one thing,
> > any init script that needs lsb-base (>= 3.0-6) *should depend on lsb-base
> > (>= 3.0-6)*, not throw an error if it's not installed.

> Dependencies do not help if the package gets uninstalled but the init
> script is not purged.

The right way to handle that is:

 [ -x /path/to/my/daemon ] || exit 0

- *not* throwing an error message about a missing dependency.

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Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
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