Comment 6 for bug 205790

Here's a snippet of the line that needs to be changed in /etc/default/mediatomb.

# Set whether the daemon should be started. Set this value to anything
# but 'yes' to enable the daemon
NO_START="yes"

This was something done way before I worked on the package and I always wondered why it was needed. If starting mediatomb after the package is installed is not desirable, that can be arranged using debhelper, thus letting someone handle how to start mediatomb using the tools used to control system services (i.e. kcontrol, etc).

Personally, I don't see the harm of allowing the mediatomb daemon to start right after mediatomb-daemon is installed. However, I could also compensate for this by using a generic shell script and dialog boxes.