Package: update-inetd
Version: 4.30+nmu1
Severity: serious

/usr/share/perl5/DebianNet.pm makes usage of Debconf but the package
doesn't have a corresponding dependency.

Furthermore in --add mode, update-inetd might display something on
stdout while this should be avoided since stdout might be used for
debconf's communication.
The line system("echo $modearg |itox"); should thus probably be changed to
system("echo $modearg |itox >&2");

I'd also like to stress that #473290 is affecting several packages in the
archive right now... most maintainers do not know that update-inetd might
call debconf as the prompt appears in very are case.

I just noticed sane-utils and its maintainer believes that #473290 should
be fixed instead of working-around this in his package. The sane-utils simply
blocks during his configuration stage when update-inetd tries to
communicate with debconf. I would consider this release critical but I
leave that up to you to upgrade it.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 
'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

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

-- debconf information excluded



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