From: Russ Allbery Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 03:44:12 +0000 (-0800) Subject: Reword maintainer script exit status requirement X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=dbd3d7dba309e272317652f2fabe2894969c7840;p=debian%2Fdebian-policy.git Reword maintainer script exit status requirement * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero status on success to avoid double-negatives. --- diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index aa40626..f866943 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ debian-policy (3.8.1.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification" uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624) + * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero + status on success to avoid double-negatives. -- Russ Allbery Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:23:50 -0700 diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml index 54c19b6..5e7a287 100644 --- a/policy.sgml +++ b/policy.sgml @@ -3436,8 +3436,7 @@ Package: libc6 scripts this means that you almost always need to use set -e (this is usually true when writing shell scripts, in fact). It is also important, of course, that - they don't exit with a non-zero status if everything went - well. + they exit with a zero status if everything went well.