I was upgrading netbase on a remote potato machine, when apt-get just stopped. (This seems to be a problem with the postrm script from the old netbase package, judging by what happened later). I hit ctrl-C and dpkg said something to the effect that the old postrm failed, and tried the postrm from the new package, but then aborted with an error message, something to the effect of "/etc/init.d/inetd: not found".
Apparently it was expecting /etc/init.d/inetd to still be there. I had to create a phony (executable) /etc/init.d/inetd to get the upgrade to work properly. This looks like a breakage of the old postrm script... if that is so, is there any mechanism in place to correctly handle this problem during upgrades? If someone less experienced tried to upgrade netbase it could cause a lot of grief. I can't remember the old version number right off (I was too worried about losing my network connection to that machine so I didn't record anything), but it's a recent potato version of netbase. T
