On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 12:16 AM Ian Jackson <[email protected]> wrote: > Thorsten Glaser writes ("Bug#975591: update-rc.d disable"): >> On Sun, 20 Dec 2020, Tom H wrote: >>> >>> It depends what's meant by "disable". >> >> Which part of “disable an init script” did you not understand? > > This is really rather rude. It seemed to me that Tom was asking > reasonable questions. People must be allowed to have a > misapprehension without getting this kind of obnoxious reply. > >> It means “do not call this init script in any runlevel”, > > Tom, my apologies. > >> which *ought* to be very obvious.I > > I have come into the middle of this conversation and am missing > many technical details (and am full of wine) but: ISTM that a > "disable" action which stopsprevents init script from stopping an > already- running daemon is rather odd. Perhaps Tom H assumed that > that wouldn't be the case, or something. > > Anyway, there is no excuse for this kind of behaviour towards > xsomeone who is trying to collaburate with us to make things work > properly.
Many thanks, but I'm OK with being called clueless :)
