Package: update-inetd
Version: 4.31
Severity: important

Installing tftpd-hpa did not result in *-inetd being launched,
counter to expectation.  /etc/inetd.conf was correctly created/populated,
but inetd was not started.

'man update-inetd' says

        After  the  /etc/inetd.conf  file  has  been  changed, update-inetd 
        will  send  a  SIGHUP signal to the inetd process to make sure that
        inetd will use the new /etc/inetd.conf file

But if /etc/inetd.c has never yet had an entry (eg; init.d/inetutils-inetd's
check_no_services() causes a no-op exit) and there is no inetd running to
receive the SIGHUP, shouldn't inetd then be launched for its first time
ever?

This is particularly acute for preseed installs, where the (eg; tftp) data/
configs have been all laid out, and inetd should be expected to kick off
when tftpd-hpa gets installed, but inetd never runs until the system is
rebooted.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages update-inetd depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.24     Debian configuration management sy

update-inetd recommends no packages.

update-inetd suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
  update-inetd/ask-several-entries: true
  update-inetd/title:
  update-inetd/ask-entry-present: true
  update-inetd/ask-disable-entries: false
  update-inetd/ask-remove-entries: false



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