Bug#374777: closed by Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be> (Re: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#374777: ntp-server: init scripts fails on upgrade and upgrade fails)

[Peter Eisentraut]

Am Mittwoch, 21. Juni 2006 20:01 schrieb Kurt Roeckx:
> On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 07:04:42PM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> > So how should one fix this situation?
> > apt-get dist-upgrade doesn't fix it.
>
> You have various options:
> - Run /etc/init.d/ntp-server start, so that stopping it works.
> - Edit the /etc/init.d/ntp-server script, and add a --oknodo to
>   the start-stop-daemon --stop call.  This is what changed in -9.
> - Remove the -e from the first line.  Adding that is actually
>   the reason you have the problem in the first place.

I think we need to provide a stable upgrade path, at least from the previous 
stable version.  Something in the preinst like the stuff we recently removed 
might be the ticket.