I reported it because I believe that disable should take precedence from
my reading of the man-page. Furthermore making disable overrule enable
is the most secure thing to do if there is any ambiguity about whether a
service should be enabled or disabled in the configuration file.
If you have read
I've tested it, by downloading the Karmic Koala Kubuntu beta live image,
running apt-get update, and then apt-get install xinetd to install the
xinetd daemon.
Altering the /etc/xinetd.conf file as described in the original bug
report, still enables the chargen service. I also verified that the
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