[Pkg-mpd-maintainers] Bug#959380: mpd: Can't disable mpd easily

[eingousef]

Package: mpd
Version: 0.21.22-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

I'd like to disable mpd at startup to only enable it when I need
it. (e.g., in a user console : mpd ; ncmpc ; mpd --kill;)

I can do stuff like 'update-rc.d mpd disable' or 'update-rc.d -f mpd
remove' or 'insserv -r mpd', but none of them will permanently disable
mpd : the /etc/rc?.d/*mpd files will be reinstalled at each upgrade.

The only way I've found to disable the service permanently is to
comment the line :

pid_file                        "/run/mpd/pid"

in the "/etc/mpd.conf" and save the file under "/etc/mpd.local", and
then to add the line :

MPDCONF=/etc/mpd.local

in "/etc/default/mpd".

I haven't tested this solution, but it should work. It looks ugly
though.

It would be better if there was an "AUTOSTART=(true|false)" option or
something similar in /etc/default/mpd , like in most debian services.

Regards,

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (980, 'stable-updates'), (980, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable'), (90, 'experimental'), (90, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.5.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages mpd depends on:
ii  adduser                   3.118
ii  init-system-helpers       1.57
ii  libadplug-2.3.1-0         2.3.1+dfsg-2
ii  libao4                    1.2.2+20180113-1+b1
ii  libasound2                1.2.2-2.1
ii  libaudiofile1             0.3.6-5
ii  libavahi-client3          0.7-5
ii  libavahi-common3          0.7-5
ii  libavcodec58              7:4.2.2-1+b1
ii  libavformat58             7:4.2.2-1+b1
ii  libavutil56               7:4.2.2-1+b1
ii  libbz2-1.0                1.0.8-2
ii  libc6                     2.30-4
ii  libcdio-cdda2             10.2+2.0.0-1+b1
ii  libcdio-paranoia2         10.2+2.0.0-1+b1
ii  libcdio18                 2.0.0-2
ii  libcurl3-gnutls           7.68.0-1
ii  libdbus-1-3               1.12.16-2
ii  libexpat1                 2.2.9-1
ii  libfaad2                  2.9.1-1
ii  libflac8                  1.3.3-1
ii  libfluidsynth2            2.1.1-2
ii  libgcc-s1                 10-20200418-1
ii  libgcrypt20               1.8.5-5
ii  libgme0                   0.6.3-2
ii  libicu63                  63.2-3
ii  libid3tag0                0.15.1b-14
ii  libiso9660-11             2.0.0-2
ii  libixml10                 1:1.8.4-2
ii  libjack0 [libjack-0.125]  1:0.125.0-3+b1
ii  libjs-sphinxdoc           2.4.3-2
ii  libmad0                   0.15.1b-10
ii  libmikmod3                3.3.11.1-4
ii  libmms0                   0.6.4-3
ii  libmodplug1               1:0.8.9.0-2
ii  libmp3lame0               3.100-3
ii  libmpcdec6                2:0.1~r495-2
ii  libmpdclient2             2.18-1
ii  libmpg123-0               1.25.13-1
ii  libnfs13                  4.0.0-1
ii  libogg0                   1.3.2-1+b1
ii  libopenal1                1:1.19.1-1+b1
ii  libopus0                  1.3-1+b1
ii  libpcre3                  2:8.39-12+b1
ii  libpulse0                 13.0-5
ii  libsamplerate0            0.1.9-2
ii  libshout3                 2.4.3-1
ii  libsidplayfp4             1.8.8-1+b1
ii  libsmbclient              2:4.11.5+dfsg-1+b1
ii  libsndfile1               1.0.28-7
ii  libsndio7.0               1.5.0-3
ii  libsoxr0                  0.1.3-1
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.31.1-5
ii  libstdc++6                10-20200418-1
ii  libsystemd0               245.5-2
ii  libupnp13                 1:1.8.4-2
ii  libvorbis0a               1.3.6-2
ii  libvorbisenc2             1.3.6-2
ii  libwavpack1               5.3.0-1
ii  libwildmidi2              0.4.3-1
ii  libyajl2                  2.1.0-3
ii  libzzip-0-13              0.13.62-3.2
ii  lsb-base                  11.1.0
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.11.dfsg-2

mpd recommends no packages.

Versions of packages mpd suggests:
pn  avahi-daemon          <none>
pn  icecast2              <none>
ii  mpc [mpd-client]      0.33-1
ii  ncmpc [mpd-client]    0.35-1
ii  ncmpcpp [mpd-client]  0.8.2-0.1+b1
pn  pulseaudio            <none>

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/default/mpd changed:
MPDCONF=/etc/mpd.local


-- no debconf information