[ only 3 years later… ] On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 01:32:35AM +0100, Laurent Bigonville wrote: > Le Sat, 25 Jan 2014 15:40:18 -0400, > Joey Hess <jo...@debian.org> a écrit : > > > Laurent Bigonville wrote: > > > Now that the usage of /etc/default/* file to prevent a service to > > > start is discouraged, it might be interesting to add an option that > > > allow the maintainer to not automatically enable the service at > > > installation. > > > > Isn't that what dh_installinit --no-start does? > > > > dh_installinit --no-start prevents the service to be started at the > installation of the package. But the service is still enabled, this > means that the service will be started at the next reboot of the > machine.
--no-start will also prevent the service to be restarted during upgrade, which one still want to do, even if the service is not enabled-by-default. > What I was proposing here is to prevent the call to update-rc.d. Actually, you'd need a call to update-rc.d, but not with "defaults" as parameter, but with "disabled-if-new" (or similar, this is not-existant today) as you want: * not to enable the service if it was disabled * update the service if it was enabled Regards Evgeni
