Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 21:38:49 +1000
Message-Id: <200004281138.VAA29199@gondor.apana.org.au>
From: <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Subject: netbase: update-inetd: need a package name for each entry
To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Package: netbase
Version: 3.18-2
Severity: wishlist

In making pidentd-des package, I've found that it would be really nice if
update-inetd attached the package name (supplied on the command line) to each
entry.

In the case of pidentd/pidentd-des, the two entries are identical, so if one
were installed first, then the other (which conflicts with the first), the
first package will be removed but not yet purged.  If the user then performs
the purge operation, the postrm of the first package will remove the ident
entry.

So without this feature, I've had to rely on a test to see whether the other
package is currently installed, which isn't very reliable (not to mention
ugly) since if a new package comes into existence (say pidentd-newencalgorithm)
that fails this test, the purging problem will still exist and will be
unfixable (just as is the case now since one can't expect the user to upgrade
pidentd and then onto pidentd-des).

-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.2
Kernel Version: Linux gondor 2.2.12 #2 Sat Sep 18 12:11:40 EST 1999 i586 unknown

Versions of the packages netbase depends on:
ii  libc6               2.1.3-8             GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone data
ii  libwrap0            7.6-4               Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers library
ii  tcpd                7.6-4               Wietse Venema's TCP wrapper utilities