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Source: maint-guide
Version: 1.2.43
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
§5.10 of maint-guide mentions using /etc/default to disable a demon. However,
§9.3.3.1 of Debian Policy states
An older practice, which should not be used, was to include a line
like DISABLED=yes in the package’s /etc/default file. The package’s
init script would not start the service until the local system
administrator changed this to DISABLED=no, or similar. [...]
maint-guide should not suggest discouraged practices as valid use cases.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1,
'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_WARN, TAINT_OOT_MODULE,
TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL
set to en_CA.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set
to en_CA.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
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From: Ryan Kavanagh <r...@debian.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 18:17:36 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] /etc/default should not be used to disable services
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§9.3.3.1 of Debian Policy states
An older practice, which should not be used, was to include a line
like DISABLED=yes in the package’s /etc/default file. The package’s
init script would not start the service until the local system
administrator changed this to DISABLED=no, or similar. [...]
maint-guide should not suggest discouraged practices as valid use cases.
---
doc/05_dother.xml | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/doc/05_dother.xml b/doc/05_dother.xml
index 6e78b5a..31f70f9 100644
--- a/doc/05_dother.xml
+++ b/doc/05_dother.xml
@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ be installed as
<filename>/etc/default/<replaceable>package</replaceable></filename>. This
file sets defaults that are sourced by the init script. This
<filename><replaceable>package</replaceable>.default</filename> file
-is most often used to disable running a daemon, or to set some default flags or
+is most often used to set some default flags or
timeouts. If your init script has certain configurable
features, you can set them in the <filename><replaceable>package</replaceable>.default</filename> file,
instead of in the init script itself.
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Version: 1.2.44
This bug is fixed since maint-guide/1.2.44.
Thanks,
Boyuan Yang
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