Comment 24 for bug 56426

@Mr. Daley:

"Luke, you are proposing to add a special case to the Services dialog for avahi"

You are proposing to special-case the avahi-daemon initscript. I won't speculate as to why.
I have demonstrated that this behavior is very common in Debian, and so in Ubuntu, and I don't see that you have responded to that in any way.

This is a long-established way for initscripts in Debian to behave. Making Avahi behave differently because -- well, I don't know -- would be inconsistent, and you have not provided a justification for it that I can see. Rewriting every initscript for Ubuntu to remove this Debian feature is not likely to happen, I think -- especially not for packages in universe.

If you're argument is against disabling a daemon's initscript in /etc/default alone, please propose that this behavior be removed from Debian on the debian-devel mailing list, and let us know who that turns out.

Linking to the Upstart "manifesto" seems disengenious to me. I cannot claim to speak for the authors of that document, but I can't imagine they meant that this established behavior be removed from Debian and it's derivatives.