[Pkg-cups-devel] stupid dependencies on update-inetd

[Marco d'Itri]

I don't know exactly how it happened, but a large number of maintainers
apparently ignored the discussions on this list and added to their
packages a dependency on update-inetd.
This is *TOTALLY WRONG* because the /usr/sbin/update-inetd interface is
guaranteed to be provided by whatever implements the inet-superserver
virtual package and not by the update-inetd package currently depended
on by some inetd packages.
Indeed, the update-inetd package does not depend on a daemon package nor
it provides one itself.

Some of these packages instead are only slightly less broken and depend
both on inet-superserver and update-inetd, making impossible to install
a future xinetd package providing its own /usr/sbin/update-inetd.

For the same reason the dependency on netbase must be removed,
especially now that it does not depend anymore on inet-superserver.
(I know that in theory I should have waited for all packages to be fixed
before removing the dependency, but realistically this would not have
happened before lenny or lenny+1...)


grep-dctrl -s Package,Depends --field=Depends update-inetd \
  --and --not --field=Provides inet-superserver /var/lib/dpkg/available

Richard A Nelson (Rick) <cowboy at debian.org>
   sendmail

Masayuki Hatta (mhatta) <mhatta at debian.org>
   ebnetd

Jari Aalto <jari.aalto at cante.net>
   micro-httpd

Russ Allbery <rra at debian.org>
   kftgt
   remctl
   sident

Chris Butler <chrisb at debian.org>
   wu-ftpd

Debian CUPS Maintainers <pkg-cups-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
   cupsys

Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers <debian-qt-kde at lists.debian.org>
   kdenetwork

Debian Samba Maintainers <pkg-samba-maint at lists.alioth.debian.org>
   samba

Ludovic Drolez <ldrolez at debian.org>
   atftp

Turbo Fredriksson <turbo at debian.org>
   midentd

Debian QA Group <packages at qa.debian.org>
   ffingerd

Sam Hartman <hartmans at debian.org>
   krb5

Michael Holzt <debian-gwhois at michael.holzt.de>
   gwhois

John H. Robinson, IV <jaqque at debian.org>
   nullidentd

Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta <agi at inittab.org>
   linux-ftpd

LTSP Debian/Ubuntu Maintainers <pkg-ltsp-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
   ltsp

Martin Loschwitz <madkiss at debian.org>
   gidentd

Francesco Paolo Lovergine <frankie at debian.org>
   proftpd-dfsg

Robert Luberda <robert at debian.org>
   solid-pop3d

Rene Mayorga <rmayorga at debian.org.sv>
   afbackup

Steve McIntyre <93sam at debian.org>
   cvs

Pedro Zorzenon Neto <pzn at debian.org>
   fakepop

Anibal Monsalve Salazar <anibal at debian.org>
   bootp
   bsd-finger
   pidentd

Steve McIntyre <93sam at debian.org>
   cvs

Pedro Zorzenon Neto <pzn at debian.org>
   fakepop

Anibal Monsalve Salazar <anibal at debian.org>
   bootp
   bsd-finger
   pidentd

Martin Schulze <joey at debian.org>
   sendfile

Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk>
   uw-imap

paul cannon <pik at debian.org>
   hotway

-- 
ciao,
Marco