Package: debhelper Version: 4.2.30 Severity: normal I've come against the problem - I suspect you're aware of it - that dh_installinit does not respect the system administrator's changed to /etc/rc* symlinks.
Normally dh_installinit will invoke "update-rc.d <daemon> defaults", creating the symlinks. But a user may, reasonably, want a daemon installed, but not started at boot. They want it to run only when they want it to, starting it manually with "/etc/init.d/<daemon>. (an example is in #291766, filed against xprt-common, which handles /etc/init.d/xprint). The obvious solution is for that administrator to run "update-rc.d <daemon> remove", which provides the desired behaviour: the daemon does not start at boot, but can be started manually. The problem with this is that on upgrade, dh_installinit invokes "update-rc.d <daemon> defaults", which restores the symlinks back again, ignoring the system administrator's deliberate instructions to remove them. I'm not sure if you'll say the bug is in update-rc.d rather than dh_installinit, but since dh_installinit, from my perspective as the xprt-common maintainer, is "causing" the problem, I'll start the conversation with you and see where we can go from here. If there is in fact an alternate, better, solution that produces the desired behaviour, other than manipulating update-rc.d, then please let me know! Drew -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.10 Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages debhelper depends on: ii binutils 2.15-5 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii coreutils [fileutils] 5.2.1-2 The GNU core utilities ii debconf-utils 1.4.42 debconf utilities ii dpkg-dev 1.10.26 Package building tools for Debian ii file 4.12-1 Determines file type using "magic" ii html2text 1.3.2a-1 An advanced HTML to text converter ii perl 5.8.4-5 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii po-debconf 0.8.17 Manage translated Debconf template -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
