The author is spot on. This has been a long-standing bug in Debian which, due to their glacial processes, will probably prevail eternally. In theory it is pos

The author is spot on. This has been a long-standing bug in Debian which, due to their glacial processes, will probably prevail eternally. In theory it is possible to disable the post installation auto-start with a specially crafted 'policy-rc.d'. In practice you don't want to go there, as it tends to break in unexpected ways.