> I think Debian's rationale is that if a sysadmin interactively installs a package, then that sysadmin does so to get its primary service (if any) running, so

> I think Debian's rationale is that if a sysadmin interactively installs a package, then that sysadmin does so to get its primary service (if any) running, so packages should arrange this by default. Except that if a sysadmin installs a package that provides a daemon, this daemon usually needs to be configured first, so starting it with semi-broken config (and debconf-generated one is still semi-broken) is counterproductive.