AFAIK it is Debian (and Ubuntu) policy for all packages to auto start services. And it is also quite difficult to pre-set package config files before installing

AFAIK it is Debian (and Ubuntu) policy for all packages to auto start services. And it is also quite difficult to pre-set package config files before installing, especially if you want to script it with a configuration manager like puppet. I can't recall ever seeing a package in the official repositories for which this is not the case, and it is a real and genuine pain point in using Debian as a server.