[Bug 1712817] [NEW] postinst fails if the service is disabled via systemd

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When updating my Xenial with freeradius installed but not active I got
the following error:

    Setting up freeradius-common (2.2.8+dfsg-0.1ubuntu0.1) ...
    Setting up libfreeradius2 (2.2.8+dfsg-0.1ubuntu0.1) ...
    Setting up freeradius-utils (2.2.8+dfsg-0.1ubuntu0.1) ...
    Setting up freeradius (2.2.8+dfsg-0.1ubuntu0.1) ...
    Setting up freeradius-ldap (2.2.8+dfsg-0.1ubuntu0.1) ...
    freeradius.service is not active, cannot reload.
    invoke-rc.d: initscript freeradius, action "force-reload" failed.
    dpkg: error processing package freeradius-ldap (--configure):
     subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1


lsb_release -rd
Description:	Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
Release:	16.04

apt-cache policy freeradius-ldap # before update
freeradius-ldap:
  Installed: 2.2.8+dfsg-0.1build2
  Candidate: 2.2.8+dfsg-0.1ubuntu0.1
  Version table:
     2.2.8+dfsg-0.1ubuntu0.1 500
        500 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/universe amd64 Packages
        500 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe amd64 Packages
 *** 2.2.8+dfsg-0.1build2 500
        500 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

** Affects: init-system-helpers (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: xenial
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postinst fails if the service is disabled via systemd
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1712817
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