Re: Bug#601455: marked as done (can't stop daemon using /etc/init.d/foo stop when disabled via /etc/default/foo)

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Subject: Re: Bug#601455: marked as done (can't stop daemon using /etc/init.d/foo stop when disabled via /etc/default/foo)
From: Marc Haber <mh+debian-devel@zugschlus.de>
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2013 16:05:09 +0100
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In-reply-to: <87ppp5rfiu.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>
References: <201312091527.12534.holger@layer-acht.org> <20101026131106.3791.46291.reportbug@i7> <handler.601455.D601455.138659923516168.ackdone@bugs.debian.org> <20131209152420.GH5523@a82-93-13-222.adsl.xs4all.nl> <52A5F8F4.3040400@debian.org> <87ppp5rfiu.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>

On Mon, 09 Dec 2013 11:27:37 -0800, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
wrote:
>If Policy says anything, I suspect we'll say that having a disable flag in
>/etc/default is considered harmful and packages should instead document
>that update-rc.d disable should be used for this purpose (and perhaps
>migrate the disabled flag to update-rc.d disable on upgrade).

If the article on
http://blog.zugschlus.de/archives/974-Debians-Policy-rc.d-infrastructure-explained.html
is of any help, I will happily put it under a free license so that
Debian can freely copy-paste from there.

Greetings
Marc
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- Re: Bug#601455: marked as done (can't stop daemon using /etc/init.d/foo stop when disabled via /etc/default/foo)
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  - From: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>

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