Re: stupid dependencies on update-inetd
Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> writes:
> On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 10:46:30PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Couldn't any inet-superserver package that provides its own
>> update-inetd also Provide: update-inetd? Wouldn't that fix the
>> problem? It has to Conflict with update-inetd anyway.
> FWIW, presently the only inet-superserver package that doesn't depend on
> update-inetd is rlinetd, and it diverts /usr/sbin/update-inetd rather
> than conflicting.
That seems wrong to me, too, although it probably predates the
update-inetd package.
I'm at a bit of a loss now as to whether to change lintian's checks or
not, although I did update the long description of that tag to not push
depending on update-inetd directly.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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