Init scripts, maintainer scripts, and debhelper

[Marc Haber <debian-mentors.lists.debian.org@marc-haber.de>]

Hi,

following annoying problem:

- a package uses debhelper, and dh_installinit
- dh_installinit adds code to maintainer scripts calling init script
  on installation and deinstallation-
- init script uses start-stop-daemon
- start-stop-daemon barfs on start if daemon is already running, or on
  stop if daemon is not running.
- start-stop-daemon barfing stops apt-get dist-upgrade.

Quite a few packages have that problem.

Is there a recommendation to make one's package better behaved? Using
start-stop-daemon --oknodo does not seem to be the correct way since
this turns off error detection completely.

Any hints will be appreciated.

Greetings
Marc

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