Hello Dan, or anyone else affected, Accepted sendmail into cosmic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sendmail/8.15.2-11ubuntu1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.
Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users. If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-cosmic to verification-done-cosmic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-cosmic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed. Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping! N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days. ** Description changed: + [Impact] + if you have update-inetd installed, part of all? -desktop metapackages, you can not install or upgrade sendmail-base. + + [Test Case] + 1) apt install update-inetd + 2) apt install sendmail-base + + With the old version of the package you'll observe the following + failure. + + Setting up sendmail-base (8.15.2-11) ... + update-inetd: warning: cannot add service, /etc/inetd.conf does not exist + update-inetd: warning: cannot add service, /etc/inetd.conf does not exist + update-inetd: warning: cannot add service, /etc/inetd.conf does not exist + update-inetd: error: --group is only relevant with --add + dpkg: error processing package sendmail-base (--configure): + installed sendmail-base package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 255 + + With the new version of the package you won't. Hooray! + + [Regression Potential] + This has been fixed in Debian and the fix just removes an irrelevant argument, given that the package is currently uninstallable when update-inetd is installed the potential for making things worse is very low. + $ sudo apt-get remove -y sendmail-base 100 [ 09:37:15 ] Reading package lists... Done - Building dependency tree + Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: - sendmail-base + sendmail-base 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 867 kB disk space will be freed. (Reading database ... 260510 files and directories currently installed.) Removing sendmail-base (8.15.2-11) ... update-inetd: error: --group is only relevant with --add dpkg: error processing package sendmail-base (--remove): - installed sendmail-base package pre-removal script subprocess returned error exit status 255 + installed sendmail-base package pre-removal script subprocess returned error exit status 255 Errors were encountered while processing: - sendmail-base + sendmail-base E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) - ProblemType: Bug - DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10 + ProblemType: BugDistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10 Package: sendmail-base 8.15.2-11 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-7.8-generic 4.18.5 Uname: Linux 4.18.0-7-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu9 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Fri Sep 14 09:25:36 2018 InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-10-23 (325 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Release amd64 (20171018) - PackageArchitecture: all - SourcePackage: sendmail + PackageArchitecture: allSourcePackage: sendmail UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to cosmic on 2018-09-10 (3 days ago) ** Changed in: sendmail (Ubuntu Cosmic) Status: In Progress => Fix Committed ** Tags added: verification-needed verification-needed-cosmic -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1792582 Title: install or removal fails with `update-inetd: error: --group is only relevant with --add` To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sendmail/+bug/1792582/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
