Re: Debian policy, a problem or a misunderstand ?
Ben Finney a écrit :
> Laurent Guignard <lguignard.debian@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi mentors,
>>
>> I read the Debian policy to create my package and i read this at chapter
>> "6.1 Introduction to package maintainer scripts"
>>
>> "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.*"
>>
>> It seems that if an error occurs, the script have to exit with non-zero
>> status
>
> Yes.
>
>> and later in paragraph, if all went well, the script has to exit
>> with non-zero status.
>
> No, you've flipped a boolean somewhere :-) It says exactly the
> opposite: it is important that the script *not* exit with a non-zero
> status if all went well.
>
>> How do i have understand that ?
>
> Perhaps the double negatives are confusing you.
Yes it is. A saturday, 07:00 it is excusable ;).
>
>> My opinion is that if everything went well, the exit status has to
>> be zero other else a non-zero status ?
>
> Yes, that's the meaning of the passage you quoted.
>
Sorry for noise.
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