I don't know exactly how it happened, but a large number of maintainers apparently ignored the discussions on this list and added to their packages a dependency on update-inetd. This is *TOTALLY WRONG* because the /usr/sbin/update-inetd interface is guaranteed to be provided by whatever implements the inet-superserver virtual package and not by the update-inetd package currently depended on by some inetd packages. Indeed, the update-inetd package does not depend on a daemon package nor it provides one itself.
Some of these packages instead are only slightly less broken and depend both on inet-superserver and update-inetd, making impossible to install a future xinetd package providing its own /usr/sbin/update-inetd. For the same reason the dependency on netbase must be removed, especially now that it does not depend anymore on inet-superserver. (I know that in theory I should have waited for all packages to be fixed before removing the dependency, but realistically this would not have happened before lenny or lenny+1...) grep-dctrl -s Package,Depends --field=Depends update-inetd \ --and --not --field=Provides inet-superserver /var/lib/dpkg/available Richard A Nelson (Rick) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sendmail Masayuki Hatta (mhatta) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ebnetd Jari Aalto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> micro-httpd Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> kftgt remctl sident Chris Butler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wu-ftpd Debian CUPS Maintainers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cupsys Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> kdenetwork Debian Samba Maintainers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> samba Ludovic Drolez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> atftp Turbo Fredriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> midentd Debian QA Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ffingerd Sam Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> krb5 Michael Holzt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gwhois John H. Robinson, IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> nullidentd Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> linux-ftpd LTSP Debian/Ubuntu Maintainers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ltsp Martin Loschwitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gidentd Francesco Paolo Lovergine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> proftpd-dfsg Robert Luberda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> solid-pop3d Rene Mayorga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> afbackup Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cvs Pedro Zorzenon Neto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> fakepop Anibal Monsalve Salazar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> bootp bsd-finger pidentd Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cvs Pedro Zorzenon Neto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> fakepop Anibal Monsalve Salazar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> bootp bsd-finger pidentd Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sendfile Jonas Smedegaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uw-imap paul cannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> hotway -- ciao, Marco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
