[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#586709: Bug#586709: Think I found the problem

[Thorsten Glaser]

On Fri, 26 Oct 2018, Ian Jackson wrote:

> the current actual behaviour in the manpages.  Rather, it would be to
> try to write down what the desired behaviour would be, and then
> document and implement it.

Indeed.

As a user, my current expectation is that “halt” shuts down without
poweroff, and “halt -p” shuts down with poweroff. Similarily for
“shutdown -h now” vs. “shutdown -h -P now”. Finally, the default
for Ctrl-Alt-Del should be reboot, but configurable (I have it
set to poweroff on my systems).

Most of that is the current existing behaviour…

> ISTM that one key principle of that desired behaviour is that the
> ultimate stopping behaviour of halt/reboot/poweroff should be the

… but reading this surprises me a bit, I thought that’s a given.

bye,
//mirabilos
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