Bug#601455: Steps towards a patch to document disabling a daemon upon installation

Hello Andreas, On Sun, Sep 10 2017, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > I can't help myself but repeat that I'd prefer seeing more passive > wording eg. instead of "instead add to your postinst" use something > like "the postinst should contain" + a footnote about this normally > being added by dh_...

Bug#601455: Steps towards a patch to document disabling a daemon upon installation

Hi, On Mon, Dec 25, 2017 at 06:27:21PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Ian Jackson writes: > > Sean Whitton writes: > > >> 2. Do we need to include any text saying *why* the /etc/default practice > >>is a bad idea? I couldn't come up with a succinct way to

Bug#601455: Steps towards a patch to document disabling a daemon upon installation

Ian Jackson writes: > Sean Whitton writes: >> 2. Do we need to include any text saying *why* the /etc/default practice >>is a bad idea? I couldn't come up with a succinct way to state it. >>In general, I think we can err on the side of not including the

Bug#601455: Steps towards a patch to document disabling a daemon upon installation

On Mon, 11 Sep 2017 14:41:12 +0100 Ian Jackson wrote: > Sean Whitton writes ("Steps towards a patch to document disabling a daemon > upon installation"): > > [draft policy text] > > > +The default behaviour is to enable autostarting your package's daemon. > > >

Bug#601455: Steps towards a patch to document disabling a daemon upon installation

control: block 601455 by 857452 On Mon, Sep 11 2017, Ian Jackson wrote: > This should also be fixed with a new update-rc.d rune. Thank you, Ian and Felipe, for your feedback. I think the right thing is to wait on #857452. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#601455: Steps towards a patch to document disabling a daemon upon installation

Sean Whitton writes ("Steps towards a patch to document disabling a daemon upon installation"): ... > [draft policy text] ... > > +The default behaviour is to enable autostarting your package's daemon. > > +If the daemon should not be autostarted unless the local administrator > > +has explicitly

Bug#601455: Steps towards a patch to document disabling a daemon upon installation

On Sep 09, Sean Whitton wrote: > 1. Is the 'should not' for the /etc/default practice too strong? I No, because it cannot be supported in a sane way by systemd units. It should even be "must not". -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#601455: Steps towards a patch to document disabling a daemon upon installation

Hello Sean Whitton, Thanks for your work on this. Hopefully you'll find something in my comments inlined below of any use... On Sat, Sep 09, 2017 at 01:40:18PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > Hello, > > This is what I have so far; it is certainly inadequate. CCing -devel > for help answering my

Bug#601455: Steps towards a patch to document disabling a daemon upon installation

Hello, This is what I have so far; it is certainly inadequate. CCing -devel for help answering my technical questions about this patch. > @@ -537,6 +537,21 @@ and in your ``postrm`` > update-rc.d package remove > fi > > +The default behaviour is to enable autostarting your