On 26/05/2023 21:54, Tobias Frost wrote:
maintainer scripts are not designed to convey messages to users. It is very liekly to be not seen at all, and the one performing the installatin might not be the user using it later or the user might not remember the warning when actually using the software…
OK, I've dropped it now.
Even writing in the manpage is in my opinion not really suitable, IMHO the program itself needs to ensure that there is no data loss, e.g by detecting if the programm in question is currently being executed and if it detects it refuse to its thing or lock the database, (if that prevents that.)
There is no data loss. Any open files are just not 'cleaned'. As I'm regenerating the man page anyway .... Uploaded a new version. Cheers, Peter