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Re: stupid dependencies on update-inetd



On Jul 31, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:

> > 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.
Indeed, it's buggy.

> 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.
Yes, because it's *wrong* for all the reasons I explained in this
thread.

-- 
ciao,
Marco

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