Comment 5 for bug 75058

Hi,

* Shaul Karl (<email address hidden>) [040303 12:10]:
> You want to let it die gracefully because you don't want to interrupt
> faxes that are possibly being sent at the time of the signal. In
> addition, not interrupting those fax transmissions will avoid duplicate
> faxes to be sent. This indeed solves the problem of the wrong signal
> that I have raised in my original report. However thinking about your
> solution, I believe it has a basic flaw. In fact, I believe it is
> something we usually don't pay attention to, although we should. The
> flaw that I am referring to is concerned with emergency shutdowns due to
> power failures. In fact, I strongly believe that there is a need to
> insert a paragraph in debian-policy that delaying the stop action of an
> init.d script should be discussed in debian-devel before
> carrying it out.

I discussed that change before in #debian-devel on IRC, and all others
said that delaying is the proper solution. However, as I see your
points as valid, it might be really the best to discuss that issue in
general on debian-devel to find the proper way to solve that, not only
for mgetty-fax, but also for similar applications.

Cheers,
Andi
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