Re: Release update

[Patrice Fortier <Patrice.Fortier@u-bordeaux3.fr>]

Le mar 30/03/2004 à 17:02, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña a écrit :
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 03:43:10PM +0200, Patrice Fortier wrote:
> > I had updates for ssh, portmap and nfs-common last week, and
> > each update restarted its service even if I had disabled them
> > (update-rc.d -f xxx remove). As a sidenote, I find this _very_
> > irritating... I'd like this policy enforced for these scripts
> > http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s10.7.3
> 
> This is really a FAQ item, you should not remove all of the items, just the 
> start links so the status is preserved on upgrades. for more info:
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch3.en.html#s-disableserv

As it is said, it's really not intuitive.
What is the reason for this behaviour?

I guess there already were a lot of discussions as:
1/ It's not intuitive (so much, that's even written in your manual).
2/ It violates the debian policy for /etc/ files.
3/ someone had to code this, and make people accept it :).

I'm really interested by an answer for this.

> The problem in the rc?.d scripts is not really a problem. It's more like a 
> feature. 

;o)

Regards,
Patrice.