Bug#780403: debian-policy: Define what should happen when installing a package and the init script fails to start it
Ivan Baldo <ibaldo@adinet.com.uy> writes:
> What should happen if installing a package and then when it tries to
> start its service it fails?
> Currently the most common behaviour seems to be that the installation
> fails.
> But is that the best outcome?
Currently, Policy leaves this to the discretion of the package maintainer.
To change that, what will be needed here is not just an argument that
other behaviors besides failing installation might be desirable, but that
there is a compelling need to standardize this behavior across the entire
archive instead of leaving it to the discretion of the maintainer.
I think it might be better to start with filing bugs against the specific
packages that you want to run in non-standard configurations, where the
abort on service start failure behavior is interfering with your ability
to do that, and then see what the package maintainers say.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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