Comment 25 for bug 94065

The "expected to uninstall" comes from Debian Policy, btw. It
probably shouldn't be a surprise that Debian still to this day doesn't
provide a canon way to disable init scripts from running on boot aside
from uninstalling the package.

On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 5:49 PM, paul fox
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> fair enough.
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> Title:
>  init: add non-destructive means to disable a job
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> Status in Upstart:
>  Triaged
> Status in “upstart” package in Ubuntu:
>  Invalid
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> Bug description:
>  I need the ability to disable an event.d entry without removing the entry completely.  this is the equivalent of commenting a line in /etc/inittab.  this might be to temporarily disable a serial line getty, or whatever.
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