Package: midentd Version: 2.3.1-3 Followup-For: Bug #58480 I think that there is indeed a bug...
The typical situation will be that pidentd was installed and the machine is later-on configured for masquerading, then the user will try to install midentd. Starting with an installed and working pidentd : # grep ident /etc/passwd identd:x:100:65534::/var/run/identd:/bin/false # ls /var/run/identd # grep ident /etc/inetd.conf ; ls -l /usr/sbin/identd ident stream tcp wait identd /usr/sbin/identd identd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 34904 May 12 15:34 /usr/sbin/identd # aptitude install midentd Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done The following packages will be automatically REMOVED: pidentd The following NEW packages will be installed: midentd The following packages will be REMOVED: pidentd 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/12.4kB of archives. After unpacking 93.2kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] Writing extended state information... Done (Reading database ... 184063 files and directories currently installed.) Removing pidentd ... Selecting previously deselected package midentd. (Reading database ... 184050 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking midentd (from .../midentd_2.3.1-3_i386.deb) ... Setting up midentd (2.3.1-3) ... Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done Then : # grep ident /etc/inetd.conf ; ls -l /usr/sbin/identd ident stream tcp wait identd /usr/sbin/identd identd ls: /usr/sbin/identd: No such file or directory # ls /var/run/identd # grep ident /etc/passwd identd:x:100:65534::/var/run/identd:/bin/false It looks like if pidentd should be purged instead of removed when midentd will have to be installed... Maybe this is a problem with the packages conflicting status, or the way aptitude handles such cases... In any case, I have checked that pidentd is correctly purged if using patitude purge pidentd... Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-1-k7 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages midentd depends on: ii adduser 3.63 Add and remove users and groups ii dpkg 1.10.28 Package maintenance system for Deb ii netbase 4.21 Basic TCP/IP networking system -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
