[debhelper-devel] Bug#709384: dh_installinit: Please add an option to no enable the service at installation

[Laurent Bigonville]

Le Sat, 25 Jan 2014 15:40:18 -0400,
Joey Hess <joeyh at debian.org> a écrit :

> Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> > Now that the usage of /etc/default/* file to prevent a service to
> > start is discouraged, it might be interesting to add an option that
> > allow the maintainer to not automatically enable the service at
> > installation.
> 
> Isn't that what dh_installinit --no-start does?
> 

dh_installinit --no-start prevents the service to be started at the
installation of the package. But the service is still enabled, this
means that the service will be started at the next reboot of the
machine.

What I was proposing here is to prevent the call to update-rc.d.