debathena-discuss-server shouldn't assume inetd

[mitchb]

When I took the debathena-discuss-server update this
morning, I noticed the following message:

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The following line will be added to your /etc/inetd.conf file:

discuss\tstream\ttcp\tnowait\tdiscuss\t/usr/sbin/discussd

If you are indeed using xinetd, you will have to convert the
above into /etc/xinetd.conf format, and add it manually. See
/usr/share/doc/xinetd/README.Debian for more information.

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First, the "\t"s above are literal - they displayed as "\t"
on the screen, which is probably an error.

Second, even Hardy, which is the oldest supported Ubuntu
release, uses xinetd, so the package should probably
know how to detect and configure xinetd correctly.

[kcr]

First, the "\t"s above are literal - they displayed as "\t"
on the screen, which is probably an error.

Second, even Hardy, which is the oldest supported Ubuntu
release, uses xinetd, so the package should probably
know how to detect and configure xinetd correctly.

At least in debian, xinetd is usually run with the -inetd_compat option, so it reads /etc/inetd.conf, and that message is a bug in update-inetd.

[andersk]

Replying to mitchb:

Second, even Hardy, which is the oldest supported Ubuntu
release, uses xinetd, so the package should probably
know how to detect and configure xinetd correctly.

Ubuntu doesn’t use xinetd by default.

$ aptitude search '~D^openbsd-inetd$' | wc -l
64
$ aptitude search '~D^xinetd$'
p   xmlsysd                         - wulfware daemon to extract data from clust

Though as kcr says, it should work fine anyway.