[Bug 46014] Re: Missing dependency on e.g. netkit-inetd

[Robert Collins]

Confirming and setting to medium - there is no obvious workaround for
the missing update script,and users will have a wedged system that keeps
trying to configure amanda-server until they install the magic missing
package.

heres what the failure looks like for google:

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Setting up amanda-server (2.5.1p1-2) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/amanda-server.postinst: 3: update-inetd: not found
/var/lib/dpkg/info/amanda-server.postinst: 4: update-inetd: not found
dpkg: error processing amanda-server (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 127


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** Changed in: amanda (Ubuntu)
       Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed

** Summary changed:

- Missing dependency on e.g. netkit-inetd
+ Failure to configure amanda-server : update-inetd not found (due to a missing dependency on e.g. netkit-inetd)

** Description changed:

- originally reported using reportbug
- 
- ---------- Forwarded message ----------
- From: Matthias Deege <m.deege at gmx.de>
- To: Ubuntu Bug Tracking System <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
- Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 21:31:41 +0200
- Subject: amanda-server: Missing dependency on e.g. netkit-inetd
- Package: amanda-server
- Version: 1:2.4.5-1
- Severity: normal
- 
  The amanda-server needs some inetd-server to offer its services to the
  net (and in fact to the localhost, too). In most setups, netkit-inetd
  should be already installed. However, it doesn't need to be.
  
  As I recognized, installing the amanda packages will modify inetd.conf
  accordingly. But without an installed inetd this will not work.
  
  So I would recommend to add some dependency (probably depends) on an
  inetd-server for the amanda-server package.
  
- 
- -- System Information:
- Debian Release: testing/unstable
-  APT prefers breezy-updates
-  APT policy: (500, 'breezy-updates'), (500, 'breezy-security'), (500,
- 'breezy-backports'), (500, 'breezy')
- Architecture: i386 (i686)
- Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
- Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-10-686
- Locale: LANG=de_DE at euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
- (ignored: LC_ALL set to de_DE at euro)
- 
- Versions of packages amanda-server depends on:
- ii  amanda-co 1:2.4.5-1                      Advanced Maryland Automatic Networ
- ii  libc6     2.3.5-1ubuntu12.5.10.1         GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
- ii  libncurse 5.4-9ubuntu4                   Shared libraries for terminal hand
- ii  mailx     1:8.1.2-0.20040524cvs-4ubuntu1 A simple mail user agent
- 
- amanda-server recommends no packages.
- 
- -- no debconf information
+ Without such a dependency, amanda-server will try to invoke update-inetd
+ and fail.

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Failure to configure amanda-server : update-inetd not found (due to a missing dependency on e.g. netkit-inetd)
https://launchpad.net/bugs/46014