Bug#802501: init script failures during postinst and related scripts
Package: debian-policy
Severity: important
If postinst or one of the other scripts does a service restart and the
restart operation fails, should the postinst abort or should it mask the
error, continue and return success?
If it continues, is there any other convention for reporting the
problem, e.g. stderr?
Looking at s9.3.3 "Interfacing with the initscript system"
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#s9.3.3
it doesn't explicitly state what should happen.
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