On Tue, 6 Dec 2016 11:20:57 +0100 Andreas Henriksson <andr...@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