Re: Debian policy, a problem or a misunderstand ?
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 07:16:50AM +0200, Laurent Guignard wrote:
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> Hi mentors,
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> I read the Debian policy to create my package and i read this at chapter
> "6.1 Introduction to package maintainer scripts"
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> "The package management system looks at the exit status from these
> scripts. *It is important that they exit with a non-zero status if there
^^^^^^^^^
> is an error*, so that the package management system can stop its
> processing. For shell scripts this means that you almost always need to
> use set -e (this is usually true when writing shell scripts, in fact).
> It is also important, of course, that *they don’t exit with a non-zero
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> status if everything went well.*"
Perhaps this should say "If everything goes well, they should exit
with zero status".
> It seems that if an error occurs, the script have to exit with non-zero
> status and later in paragraph, if all went well, the script has to exit
^^^^^^^^
should not
> with non-zero status.
> How do i have understand that ? My opinion is that if everything
> went well, the exit status has to be zero other else a non-zero
> status ?
Correct.
Justin
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