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Bug#107862: marked as done (newly installed services start automatically)

Your message dated Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:04:43 +0200
with message-id <200809130004.44429.holger@layer-acht.org>
and subject line just a tag is not documentation...
has caused the Debian Bug report #107862,
regarding newly installed services start automatically
to be marked as done.

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Package: general
Version: N/A; reported 2001-08-06
Severity: normal

I installed another package today (pdnsd, not that it matters) that 
has a startup script in /etc/init.d, and I've been wondering about 
this for a while. Newly installed services like this automatically 
start as part of the installation process. I can think of a few 
problems with this. The first is just a matter of convenience; the 
admin may want to configure the program before starting it. More 
severe is a problem from personal experience: on installing the ipx 
software, the default settings were apparently so mismatched with 
the network my machine was on as to cause a kernel panic. Upon 
restarting, the package system was so screwed up (since critical 
files were open when it crashed) that I resorted to a full reinstall. 

So the question is, is it really necessary for new services to be 
started automatically? Usually it isn't really a problem, but on the 
off chance something goes horribly wrong, having an unusable system 
isn't fun. (...and if I've just missed some option to dselect / apt /
dpkg in the docs, is there a good reason that this behavior is the 
default?)

Mike McGuire

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Hi,

I'm closing this bug ("newly installed services start automatically") which is 
rightfully tagged "wontfix", as there is no information in the bug and the 
merged bug, why it's tagged that way and so it's useless to keep it open.
(Not sure if this is documented in policy or not, but I also think it's 
obvious that packages should work out of the box :) (If this can be done in a 
secure fashion.)

Thus closing because it's obvious. It's also obvious that we wontfix this. 
(IMHO.)


regards,
	Holger

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