[debhelper-devel] Bug#480839: consider not starting asterisk on upgrade when no /etc/rc*/S*asterisk symlinks exists

[Niels Thykier]

Control: tags -1 wontfix

On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:10:19 +0300 Timo Juhani Lindfors
<timo.lindfors at iki.fi> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Faidon Liambotis <paravoid at debian.org> writes:
> > I'm not sure if your rationale is valid but if it is, this affects a
> > whole lot of other packages.
> 
> Thanks. I don't unfortunately have time to investigate this further at
> the moment but to me it appears to make it really hard to not
> accidentally offer some service to internet (firewall should not be
> the right solution here...).
> 
> best regards,
> Timo Lindfors
> 

Hi,

There is nothing we can do in debhelper AFAICT without violating Policy.

If you do not want a particular daemon to run, please use 'update-rc.d
disable' (or configure policy-rc.d).

Thanks,
~Niels