On Jul 29, Magnus Holmgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So you're saying that inet-superservers that use the traditional inetd.conf > should depend on update-inetd as their way of implementing the update-inetd > interface. Packages that provide services to be served by inet-superservers > should depend on, recommend or suggest inet-superserver. It would be good if Yes.
> update-inetd's package description explained this. Feel free to change it. > But: AFAIU, /etc/inetd.conf is now owned by any package, because it's used by > several packages and updated by update-inetd. I think it makes sense for > service packages, like samba, to update inetd.conf even though no > inet-superserver is installed, so that if/when one is installed, the > configuration is in place. This has not been a problem since Debian existed so I do not see any good reason to change it now. Maintainers should decide if their package needs to depend on a inet-superserver or not, and leave alone inetd.conf if it does not. -- ciao, Marco
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