Bug#601455: Standardize how to disable an init script

2017-01-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Andreas Henriksson writes: > On Sun, Jan 01, 2017 at 10:38:02PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> This is mostly just documenting update-rc.d disable in Policy, except >> that we need to document how to keep a service from ever being enabled >> and started by installation of a

Bug#601455: Standardize how to disable an init script

2017-01-02 Thread Andreas Henriksson
Hello Russ Allbery, On Sun, Jan 01, 2017 at 10:38:02PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: [...] > We should be coming up with a documented way of disabling a service and > put that in Policy, and provide a recommendation for people to use that > instead of all the other mechanisms that currently exist

Bug#601455: Standardize how to disable an init script

2017-01-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Andreas Henriksson writes: > The underlying issue for this bug report is similar to what's recently > been discussed in #522163 - the /etc/default/ ENABLED anti-pattern. > In #522163 it seemed the conclusion included that documenting that > something is an anti-pattern in

Bug#601455: Standardize how to disable an init script

2017-01-01 Thread Andreas Henriksson
Hello! The underlying issue for this bug report is similar to what's recently been discussed in #522163 - the /etc/default/ ENABLED anti-pattern. In #522163 it seemed the conclusion included that documenting that something is an anti-pattern in policy itself was not desirable. I thus think that