stupid dependencies on update-inetd
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) <cowboy@debian.org>
sendmail
Masayuki Hatta (mhatta) <mhatta@debian.org>
ebnetd
Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
micro-httpd
Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
kftgt
remctl
sident
Chris Butler <chrisb@debian.org>
wu-ftpd
Debian CUPS Maintainers <pkg-cups-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
cupsys
Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers <debian-qt-kde@lists.debian.org>
kdenetwork
Debian Samba Maintainers <pkg-samba-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org>
samba
Ludovic Drolez <ldrolez@debian.org>
atftp
Turbo Fredriksson <turbo@debian.org>
midentd
Debian QA Group <packages@qa.debian.org>
ffingerd
Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org>
krb5
Michael Holzt <debian-gwhois@michael.holzt.de>
gwhois
John H. Robinson, IV <jaqque@debian.org>
nullidentd
Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta <agi@inittab.org>
linux-ftpd
LTSP Debian/Ubuntu Maintainers <pkg-ltsp-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
ltsp
Martin Loschwitz <madkiss@debian.org>
gidentd
Francesco Paolo Lovergine <frankie@debian.org>
proftpd-dfsg
Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
solid-pop3d
Rene Mayorga <rmayorga@debian.org.sv>
afbackup
Steve McIntyre <93sam@debian.org>
cvs
Pedro Zorzenon Neto <pzn@debian.org>
fakepop
Anibal Monsalve Salazar <anibal@debian.org>
bootp
bsd-finger
pidentd
Steve McIntyre <93sam@debian.org>
cvs
Pedro Zorzenon Neto <pzn@debian.org>
fakepop
Anibal Monsalve Salazar <anibal@debian.org>
bootp
bsd-finger
pidentd
Martin Schulze <joey@debian.org>
sendfile
Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
uw-imap
paul cannon <pik@debian.org>
hotway
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ciao,
Marco
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