I'm not that invested in the having openssh-server installed but not
running use-case, but in general people do not like their local
configuration beeing overridden on package upgrades in this manner.

I could image people having it installed for the man-pages, or maybe
using other units for it (per VRF instances or something), having the
main service and socket units disabled, but I doubt that happens that
much in practice.

For me the biggest problem was the socket unit beeing re-enabled when I
had it disabled it but still running sshd.service (ie without socket
activation) - now you're unexpectidly switched back to using socket
activation - something I explicitly opted out of.

I could also see this causing problems if you have the socket unit
masked (dont see why you would want that however) but the the service is
enabled, now you are without sshd. Actually I think the postinst would
also fail in that case, as systemctl enable fails enabling masked units.

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