Re: dh_installinit and dpkg-reconfigure

[Martin Godisch <martin@godisch.de>]

On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 08:12:57 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:

> On Sat, 09 Nov 2002, Martin Godisch wrote:
> 
> > dh_installinit adds 'invoke-rc.d start' (or: init.d/package start) to
> > postinst, hence, after dpkg-reconfigure is run, postinst will try to
> > start an already running service, start-stop-daemon will fail, and the
> > daemon will not reload its new configuration.
> > 
> > What's the correct way to handle this?
> 
> Well, I once proposed people to use invoke-rc.d restart for that.  It
> is (now) defined to be stop if it is running.  Then start it.

So you are suggesting not to use dh_installinit in this case and to
write 'invoke-rc.d restart' manually into postinst?

Should this be reported as a bug against debhelper?

Kind regards,

Martin