Bug#541872: debian-policy: identical notation for disabled-by-user and auto-generated entries in /etc/inetd.conf

[Serafeim Zanikolas <serzan@hellug.gr>]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 04:18:13PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote [edted]:
> I would suggest disallowing example entries altogether; let packages use the
> '#<off>#' syntax instead.  Or is there some reason I'm missing why we would
> want to support so many different ways for packages to add lines to
> update-inetd?

I'm all for simplicity, so by all means let's disallow example entries.

-     If a package wants to install an example entry into `/etc/inetd.conf',
-     the entry must be preceded with exactly one hash character (`#').
-     Such lines are treated as "commented out by user" by the
-     `update-inetd' script and are not changed or activated during package
-     updates.
+     Lines preceded with exactly one hash character (`#') are treated as
+     "commented out by user" by the `update-inetd' script and must not be
+     changed or activated during package updates.

The case of example entries is beyond the scope of policy. update-inetd can
easily get a new ``--add-disabled'' switch (which will be identical to
``--add'' except for prefixing the entry with '#<off># ').

-S

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