This one time, at band camp, Wilmer van der Gaast said:
> Hello,
> 
> I noticed this bug is keeping 1.0.x from entering testing. :-(
> 
> So which part of the policy is violated by this behaviour? "Don't 
> touch, maintainer scripts will do it" files aren't that rare in /etc, 
> and it shouldn't be hard to run dpkg-reconfigure once to set the new 
> port number.
> 
> If this isn't really a policy violation, I'd rather reduce the bug 
> severity a bit and fix this in 1.1 packages.

Section 10.7.3, it looks like.  You can refresh your memory here:
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s10.7.3

At first glance, it looks like the maintainer scripts are probably not
calling update-inetd correctly, or update-inetd is doing something
bizarre and non-idempotent.

Take care,
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