'This is a Debian "standard",' It's not a standard or a "standard" it's just something that some packages do and I can't see any benefit to it. The actual Debian standard is here
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html which is quite clear "Maintainers should use the abstraction layer provided by the update- rc.d and invoke-rc.d" and "These scripts should be named /etc/init.d/package, and they should accept one argument, saying what to do: start start the service, stop stop the service, " Please tell me why anyone should have to figure this out. Why can't it just work the way the standard says and the way every other SysV-ish system works. What is the benefit of this method? Why must the Gnome tool poke values into /etc/default/avahi-daemon? Why can't it call update-rc.d like the standard says it should? -- /etc/init.d/avahi-daemon is useless https://launchpad.net/bugs/56426 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
