Package: approx Version: 5.7-3 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
approx used to be configured on installation to start automatically. This all was apparently removed? I had to manually install openbsd-inetd and add the line 9999 stream tcp nowait approx /usr/sbin/approx /usr/sbin/approx to /etc/inetd.conf to make approx work for me. -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages approx depends on: ii adduser 3.115 ii bzip2 1.0.6-8.1 ii curl 7.52.1-3 ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.60 ii init-system-helpers 1.47 ii libc6 2.24-9 ii libpcre3 2:8.39-2.1 ii rsyslog [system-log-daemon] 8.24.0-1 ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.2+b1 approx recommends no packages. Versions of packages approx suggests: pn libconfig-model-approx-perl <none> -- no debconf information