Sorry for the long pause... I got sidetracked. :)
Michael DeHaan wrote:
If you can show me where it says this in the guidelines we'll
change
it. Otherwise I'm not terribly worried about it.
I asked the fedora-packaging list¹ and Rex Dieter (a packaging
committee member) said "suppressing scriptlet output is recommended."
I suppose that's more like a SHOULD than a MUST, in RFC parlance. ;)
I applied your return code patch already, so the return code issue
should be GTG.
That was for the %preun section. The same thing should be done for
%post, with or without the silencing of output.
¹
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-packaging/2009-March/msg00051.html
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