Bug#89830: Details
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 11:49:52PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> I don't understand..
>
> If you don't want the script to never return non-zero, can't you do that from
> the script? If the script faults then shouldn't there be an error?
>
> I'm wary to ignore pipe failures because that could mask other sorts of
> errors..
As I said in my original message, the idea is to prevent an interpreter problem
(in these two cases, Perl) from bringing apt down. If Perl is broken, apt
should not have to fail, especially since dpkg-preconfigure and apt-listchanges
are optional services that don't affect the success or failure of the
installation/upgrade.
Perhaps there should be a Dpkg::Tools::...::Options setting to say "I am a
non-critical service, please ignore my failure".
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- mdz
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