Bug#760923: tentative patch

[Vincent McIntyre]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 09:58:28AM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
> 
> This sounds confusing -- systemd has never changed the behaviour of
> "halt"; sysvinit misimplemented halt, so the change is between
> changing init systems, not upgrading any particular version.
> 
> How about something like
> 
> "halt" behaviour
> ================
> Under SysV init the "halt" command erroneously powered off the
> machine, same as "poweroff". Under systemd the "halt" command does not
> turn off the power -- to do that, use "shutdown -h" or "poweroff".
> 

I agree my attempt was sub-optimal. I'm still getting my head round systemd.
What you suggest will do the job fine, as far as I can see.

Cheers
Vince