Bug#522163: standard for disabling daemons in /etc/default

[Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se>]

Hello!

On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 11:11:20AM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
[...]
> I don't think packages should do this, except as a way to respect
> sysadmin configuration done in previous versions. openarena-server used
> to do this (and be off-by-default), but for wheezy I changed the
> documented way to disable it:
[...standard update-rc.d usage snipped...]

I would like to second Simon McVittie.

I propose closing this bug as wontfix.

Alternatively, I'd suggest turning this bug around completely and
discuss policy discuraging (or even forbidding) reinventing the
update-rc.d policy layer via /etc/default.

(TTBOMK this anti-pattern surfaced because of noone volunteering to fix
dh_installinit to avoid starting/enabling on install, but that has since
long been fixed now.)

Regards,
Andreas Henriksson