[Bug 532366] Re: util: halt should not power off system unless called with -p/--poweroff

[Daniel Richard G.]

I've confirmed that this is good in Oneiric. Thank you, Scott and Steve.

I would suggest updating the comment in /etc/default/halt, currently

    # Default behaviour of shutdown -h / halt. Set to "halt" or
"poweroff".

so that it doesn't imply to affect the behavior of halt(8). ("shutdown
-h" is the one that can go either way.)

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Title:
  util: halt should not power off system unless called with
  -p/--poweroff

Status in Upstart:
  Fix Released
Status in “upstart” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: upstart

  This concerns upstart 0.6.3-11 in Karmic.

  I see that halt(8), by default, powers off the system. (I don't agree
  with this, but it's been like this for four years, so whatever.)
  halt(8) has an option -p/--poweroff to request a poweroff (but this
  option is superfluous, because that's the default). There is no
  option, however, to have halt(8) do a system halt. The only way to get
  a proper halt is "shutdown -h -H ...", the need for which negates the
  utility of the halt/poweroff/reboot trio of commands.

  I would like to request this new option to halt(8) (e.g. -h/--halt),
  and maybe drop the -p/--poweroff option lest it mislead the user as to
  the command's default behavior.

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