Bug#378934: mldonkey-server: postinst breaks (dpkg failure) when mlnet fails to start

[Samuel Mimram <samuel.mimram@ens-lyon.org>]

Eduard Bloch wrote:
> * Eduard Bloch [Thu, Jul 20 2006, 01:19:56AM]:
> 
>>> The stop) action of the new script is fairly simple:
>>>
>>>   stop)
>>>     echo -n "Stopping $DESC: $NAME"
>>>     start-stop-daemon --stop --oknodo --pidfile $PIDFILE
>>>     echo "."
>>>   ;;
>>>
>>> Let's try a little experiment (of course the "toto" file does not exist):
>> Well, that is not the point! When the new version of prerm is run, it
>> does still execute the _old_ init script. So, how do you intend to solve
>> this problem?
> 
> Oh, and the fun continues:
> 
> Setting up mldonkey-server (2.7.7-4) ...
> Please set both variables MLDONKEY_USER and MLDONKEY_GROUP in /etc/default/mldonkey-server
> invoke-rc.d: initscript mldonkey-server, action "start" failed.
> dpkg: error processing mldonkey-server (--configure):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  mldonkey-server
> 
> Sorry, WTF? It was purged, of course there is no such setting.

This one is a real bug of mine, pending upload, see #378603.