retitle 599554 nullidentd does not depend on a superserver reassign 599554 nullidentd thanks
Hi, This is really a bug in nullidentd, because it's only usable via a superserver and yet does not 'Depends: openbsd-inetd | inet-superserver'. On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 02:46:19PM -0500, Puck Mousit wrote [edited]: > The update-inetd package has no dependency requiring that > an inetd superserver be installed. Therefore it is possible to > actually have update-inetd installed without inetd itself even > existing on the system. That's intentional. Consider a server that can be invoked as standalone, as well as via inetd. The server package's postinst script invokes update-inetd, just in case an inetd is installed, but it's perfectly fine if it's not. Such a server package, must depend on update-inetd (so that its postinst script works), but does not necessarily have to depend on a superserver. Making update-inetd depend on a superserver package, would do a disservice to the user that only wants to run the server in standalone mode. > Furthermore, even though /etc/inetd.conf does not exist, > update-inetd silently succeeds should any other package submit > info to it for inclusion the file. The file does not get created > but update-inetd produces no error. Perhaps update-inetd should display a warning in verbose mode (but still exit successfully). Anyhow, thanks for your input, but we're in a freeze, and I plan to work on a replacement of update-inetd as soon as squeeze is released. Cheers, Serafeim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
