Hi mate I kindly propose the following NMU patch. It adds an if condition to the update-inetd call and changes the dependency from netbase to update-inetd. Please consider this NMU. Feel free to upload yourself, give some feedback or give me permission to go ahead :)
Cheers Steffen
diff -u gnats-4.1.0/debian/gnats.postrm.in gnats-4.1.0/debian/gnats.postrm.in
--- gnats-4.1.0/debian/gnats.postrm.in
+++ gnats-4.1.0/debian/gnats.postrm.in
@@ -31,7 +31,9 @@
if [ "$1" = purge ]; then
# Remove the inetd setting when purging this package.
- update-inetd --remove "#?support.*"
+ if [ -e "/usr/sbin/update-inetd" ] ; then
+ update-inetd --remove "#?support.*"
+ fi
# Remove debconf templates and data
db_purge || true
diff -u gnats-4.1.0/debian/changelog gnats-4.1.0/debian/changelog
--- gnats-4.1.0/debian/changelog
+++ gnats-4.1.0/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+gnats (4.1.0-0.3) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+ * Non-maintainer upload
+ * Fix unconditional use of update-inetd in gnats.postrm script,
+ because update-inetd is not essential (Closes: #431526)
+ * Change dependency from netbase to update-inetd, because
+ update-inetd was moved into a seperate package (Closes: #43532)
+
+ -- Steffen Joeris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:31:11 +1000
+
gnats (4.1.0-0.2) unstable; urgency=high
* Non-maintainer upload during BSP
diff -u gnats-4.1.0/debian/control gnats-4.1.0/debian/control
--- gnats-4.1.0/debian/control
+++ gnats-4.1.0/debian/control
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
Package: gnats
Architecture: any
-Depends: gnats-user (>=4.0-4), exim4 | mail-transport-agent, debianutils (>= 1.6), ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, adduser, netbase
+Depends: gnats-user (>=4.0-4), exim4 | mail-transport-agent, debianutils (>= 1.6), ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, adduser, update-inetd
Suggests: gnatsweb
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