update-inetd dependency missing on 3.0.22-1ubuntu4 (feisty)

[Caspar Adriani]

Samba gives errors by installation on feisty.

Setting up samba (3.0.22-1ubuntu4) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/samba.postinst: line 123: update-inetd: command not found
dpkg: error processing samba (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 127
Errors were encountered while processing:
 samba
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Quick fix:
$ sudo apt-get install update-inetd
$ sudo apt-get install -f

[Edward Clark (eeclark)]

I had the same issue. The quick fix above worked for me.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=310516

[chantra (chantra)]

patch is said to be released on debian unstable.
But to me, it seems it is only patched when purging samba, not when removing

[Lionel Porcheron (lionel.porcheron)]

The bug in Debian is not the same problem, the problem was on purge, not installing.

update-inetd is no more in netbase package. As Ubuntu drop inetd dependency
on netbase, we do not install update-inetd by default (samba depends on netbase, and in Debian, netbase depends on and inetd and update-inetd). In Ubuntu, dependency on update-inetd has to be set.

[Lionel Porcheron (lionel.porcheron)]

Patch adding update-inetd dependency and solves the issue.

[Tollef Fog Heen (tfheen)]

FIxed in feisty now.