Bug#522163: standard for disabling daemons in /etc/default
On Tue, 6 Dec 2016 11:20:57 +0100 Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se> wrote:
> 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.
Yes, please lets not document this anti pattern.
> 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.)
Do we have somewhere else to document that ENABLE= is an antipattern?
I'm not sure this belongs in policy. After all, there's an infinite
number of ways to get things wrong ;)
Saludos
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