Package: update-inetd Version: 4.46 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
I had to notice that installing package dictd on a sid chroot fails since update-inetd was upgraded from 4.45 to 4.46. (see CI logs of ding which installs dictd as a test dependency: https://ci.debian.net/packages/d/ding/unstable/amd64/). I tracked this down a little and in the postinst of dictd I find the following code: update-inetd --disable dict (which is called if dictd should run as daemon instead via inetd). On this chroot no /etc/inetd.conf exists. So I expected that update-inetd --disable dict should simply terminate with return code 0 (as it does with 4.45), but the 4.46 version terminates with return code 2, which leads dictd.postinst to fail. Here's what I tried to reproduce on a naked sid chroot: root@dinghy:/var/lib/dpkg/info# update-inetd --disable dict update-inetd: cannot open /etc/inetd.conf: No such file or directory root@dinghy:/var/lib/dpkg/info# echo $? 2 For testing I downgraded to 4.45 and now it works as expected again: root@dinghy:/var/lib/dpkg/info# dpkg -i /tmp/update-inetd_4.45_all.deb dpkg: warning: downgrading update-inetd from 4.46 to 4.45 (Reading database ... 15458 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack /tmp/update-inetd_4.45_all.deb ... Unpacking update-inetd (4.45) over (4.46) ... Setting up update-inetd (4.45) ... root@dinghy:/var/lib/dpkg/info# update-inetd --disable dict root@dinghy:/var/lib/dpkg/info# echo $? 0 Since this looks like a bug in update-inetd I report the bug against update-inetd and not against dictd. Greetings Roland
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