Public bug reported:

A mass-upgrade of Jaunty Beta got me xinetd 1:2.3.14-7ubuntu1. A message from 
the installer,
copied below, shows it trying to convert an old-style "inetd" setup line to the 
new-style "xinetd"
format. It fails, because the converter program "itox" is not given enough 
options. Watch this:

--------- IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR XINETD USERS ----------
The following line will be added to your /etc/inetd.conf file:

9572                    stream  tcp     nowait  nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd
/usr/sbin/nbdswapd

If you are indeed using xinetd, you will have to convert the
above into /etc/xinetd.conf format, and add it manually. See
/usr/share/doc/xinetd/README.Debian for more information.
Suggested entry (automatically converted using itox):

service 9572
{
        socket_type     = stream
        protocol        = tcp
        wait            = no
        user            = nobody
You must use option -daemon_dir if you use tcpd
-----------------------------------------------------------
The last line here is emitted by /usr/sbin/itox. That utility seems to be 
getting
invoked something like this:
 echo "9572  stream  tcp  nowait  nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/nbdswapd" | 
itox
What it wants is something more like the following
 echo "9572  stream  tcp  nowait  nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/nbdswapd" | 
itox -daemon_dir /dev/null

The final particle here looks should probably be some kind of directory name. 
At this point my detective skills run out: I don't know what directory to 
specify. 
/dev/null is guaranteed to be wrong, but even with that wrong choice the itox 
utility
at least survives long enough to produce a syntatically correct entry for use
with xinetd.

~$ lsb_release -rd
Description:    Ubuntu 9.04
Release:        9.04

** Affects: xinetd (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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[jaunty] xinetd upgrade invokes itox incorrectly
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/361169
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