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and subject line Bug#661845: fixed in biff 1:0.17.pre20000412-6
has caused the Debian Bug report #661845,
regarding biff: postinst assumes existence of /etc/inetd.conf and hence prints
errors
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Package: biff
Version: 1:0.17.pre20000412-5
Severity: minor
postinst contains:
if grep -q 'biff dgram udp wait nobody.mail /usr/sbin/in.comsat comsat'
/etc/inetd.conf
.. which prints:
grep: /etc/inetd.conf: No such file or directory
.. as /etc/inetd.conf doesn't exist on my system. This is scary to me.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.4
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (700, 'stable'), (400, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages biff depends on:
ii libc6 2.11.3-2 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii netbase 4.45 Basic TCP/IP networking system
biff recommends no packages.
biff suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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Source: biff
Source-Version: 1:0.17.pre20000412-6
Done: Andreas Tille <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
biff, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Andreas Tille <[email protected]> (supplier of updated biff package)
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Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2025 11:22:24 +0100
Source: biff
Architecture: source
Version: 1:0.17.pre20000412-6
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian QA Group <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Andreas Tille <[email protected]>
Closes: 661845 1119316
Changes:
biff (1:0.17.pre20000412-6) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* QA upload.
* Orphan package
Closes: #1119316
* Add Homepage
* Add watch file
* If xinetd is used there is no file /etc/inetd.conf thus checking in
postinst and issuing warning
Closes: #661845
* No command with path in postrm script
* Do not start synopsis with article
* d/rules: hardening options
* Replace Depends: netbase by openbsd-inetd | inet-superserver
* Standards-Version: 4.7.2 (routine-update)
* debhelper-compat 13 (routine-update)
* debputy lint --auto-fix (routine-update)
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