Bug#522163: apt-cacher: change AUTOSTART to ENABLED in /etc/default/apt-cacher

[Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>]

package apt-cacher
reassign 522163 debian-policy
retitle 522163 Consistent variable names in /etc/default/* for grep
thanks

On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 08:19:18PM +0000, Mark Hindley wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 01:36:59PM +0300, Jari Aalto wrote:
> > Package: apt-cacher
> > Version: 1.6.8
> > Severity: wishlist
> > 
> > 
> >     $ cd /etc/default
> >     $ grep -i enable.*= *
> > 
> >     bootlogd:2:BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=No
> >     icecast2:18:ENABLE=false
> >     rsync:8:RSYNC_ENABLE=false
> >     smartmontools:6:#enable_smart="/dev/hda /dev/hdb"
> >     spamassassin:8:ENABLED=1
> > 
> > It would be good if apt-cacher would use similar variable:
> > 
> >    ENABLED=0
> > 
> > instead of current:
> > 
> >    AUTOSTART=0
> > 
> > This would help grepping which services are 'enabled'.
> 
> Thanks for this. I have looked into it and whilst the change would be
> easy to do, there is no accepted standard for this. A number of services
> use RUN_DAEMON or something similar.
> 
> I suggest that you start a discussion on debian-devel and reach a
> consensus which gets included in Debian Policy and then we all know what
> is expected.
> 
> Mark

I am going to reassign this to debian-policy as I think that is the 
right place to develop a consensus.

Mark