This bug has reared it's head again in an upgrade from Feisty to Gutsy
i386 desktop. I originally installed netkit-inetd through synaptic under
Feisty and it was partly deleted (put into residual config in synaptic)
during the upgrade. All attempts to completely remove the package are
failing.

Synaptic shows: E: netkit-inetd: subprocess post-removal script returned
error exit status 1

sudo dpkg --purge netkit-inetd gives:
Removing netkit-inetd ...
Purging configuration files for netkit-inetd ...
update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/inetd exists during rc.d purge (use -f to force)
dpkg: error processing netkit-inetd (--purge):
subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
netkit-inetd

sudo apt-get --purge remove netkit-inetd gives:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package netkit-inetd is not installed, so not removed

sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq netkit-inetd gives:
dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove netkit-inetd, only the config
files of which are on the system. Use --purge to remove them too.

sudo dpkg --purge --force-remove-reinstreq netkit-inetd gives:
Removing netkit-inetd ...
Purging configuration files for netkit-inetd ...
update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/inetd exists during rc.d purge (use -f to force)
dpkg: error processing netkit-inetd (--purge):
subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
netkit-inetd

This same problem was reported in the debian lists in March this year:
http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-
[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg312088.html

Regards

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/12995
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