Debian Bug report logs - #906420
dictd: installation fails on missing /etc/inetd.conf

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Roland Rosenfeld <roland@debian.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: dictd: installation fails on missing /etc/inetd.conf

Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 13:33:53 +0200

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Package: dictd
Version: 1.12.1+dfsg-4
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

Dear Maintainer,

installing dictd on a clean sid chroot fails, since update-inetd was
upgraded from 4.45 to 4.46.
The root cause here is, that it is possible to install and use
update-inetd without installing some inetd package, which results in
update-inetd trying to access /etc/inetd.conf, which may not exist.

Up to update-inetd 4.45 this was silently ignored, but update-inetd
4.46 now checks the existence of /etc/inetd.conf and fails with non
null return code, if it does not exist.  I think that this change of
behavior is a bug in update-inetd (see #905964), but maybe it would be
a good idea to make dictd more robust against this issue by checking
for existence of /etc/inetd.conf before calling update-inetd.

The attached patch implements this.

This would repair the continous integration of my package ding, which
currently fails, because it isn't able to install dictd as a
prerequisite of a test case: https://ci.debian.net/packages/d/ding/

Greetings
Roland

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Message #10 received at 906420-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>

To: 906420-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#906420: fixed in dictd 1.12.1+dfsg-8

Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2018 10:34:13 +0000

Source: dictd
Source-Version: 1.12.1+dfsg-8

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
dictd, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 906420@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org> (supplier of updated dictd package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)


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Format: 1.8
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2018 11:33:26 +0200
Source: dictd
Binary: dictd dict dictzip dictfmt
Architecture: source amd64
Version: 1.12.1+dfsg-8
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
Changed-By: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
Description:
 dict       - dictionary client
 dictd      - dictionary server
 dictfmt    - utility to format a file for use by a dictd server
 dictzip    - compression utility for dictionary databases
Closes: 906420
Changes:
 dictd (1.12.1+dfsg-8) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Ignore errors of update-inetd --disable/--remove, as update-inetd has
     recently stared failing on missing /etc/inetd.conf (closes: #906420).
     This is not done for --add/--enable, basing on the assumption that if
     user selects inetd-mode only if inetd is already installed.
   * Standards-Version: 4.2.0.
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