atftpd fails to install/upgrade if update-inetd needs to interact

[Malcolm Scott]

Setting up atftpd (0.7.git20120829-1) ...
*** WARNING: ucf was run from a maintainer script that uses debconf, but
             the script did not pass --debconf-ok to ucf. The maintainer
             script should be fixed to not stop debconf before calling ucf,
             and pass it this parameter. For now, ucf will revert to using
             old-style, non-debconf prompting. Ugh!

             Please inform the package maintainer about this problem.
Need debconf to interact
dpkg: error processing atftpd (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
No apport report written because MaxReports has already been reached
                                                                    Errors were encountered while processing:
 atftpd
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

The invocation of ucf comes from rlinetd's update-inetd, called from atftpd.postinst, which needed to prompt me about edits to /etc/rlinetd.d/tftp_udp:

$ sudo /usr/share/debconf/frontend bash -ex /var/lib/dpkg/info/atftpd.postinst configure
(...)
+ BASEDIR=/var/lib/tftpboot
+ '[' '!' -d /var/lib/tftpboot ']'
+ '[' -e /etc/init.d/atftpd ']'
+ /etc/init.d/atftpd stop
+ '[' true = false ']'
++ echo '--tftpd-timeout 300 --retry-timeout 5 --mcast-port 1758 --mcast-addr 239.239.239.0-255 --mcast-ttl 2 --maxthread 100 --verbose=5 /var/lib/tftpboot'
++ tr -s ' '
+ INETOPTS='--tftpd-timeout 300 --retry-timeout 5 --mcast-port 1758 --mcast-addr 239.239.239.0-255 --mcast-ttl 2 --maxthread 100 --verbose=5 /var/lib/tftpboot'
+ update-inetd --group BOOT --add 'tftp dgram udp4 wait nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.tftpd --tftpd-timeout 300 --retry-timeout 5 --mcast-port 1758 --mcast-addr 239.239.239.0-255 --mcast-ttl 2 --maxthread 100 --verbose=5 /var/lib/tftpboot'
*** WARNING: ucf was run from a maintainer script that uses debconf, but
             the script did not pass --debconf-ok to ucf. The maintainer
             script should be fixed to not stop debconf before calling ucf,
             and pass it this parameter. For now, ucf will revert to using
             old-style, non-debconf prompting. Ugh!

             Please inform the package maintainer about this problem.
Need debconf to interact

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: atftpd 0.7.git20120829-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-52.78-generic 3.2.48
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-52-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Sep 6 18:04:59 2013
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=screen-bce
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: atftp
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-09-06 (0 days ago)

[Malcolm Scott (malcscott)]

On second thought, this may be a rlinetd bug: perhaps update-inetd should call ucf with --debconf-ok, so that it can be used from maintainer scripts?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package rlinetd - 0.9-1

---------------
rlinetd (0.9-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream version.
  * Remove both patches, as they are integrated into upstream version.
  * Pass --debconf-ok to ucf, but first check if debconf has not been stopped
    with a really ugly hack which involvs using timeout command to check if
    debconf can return its version within 15 seconds (closes: #665443,
    LP: #877453, #1222009).
  * Use --disable-silent-rules to unhide compiler command line.
  * Add support for cross-compiling.
  * Standards-Version: 3.9.5 (no changes).

 -- Robert Luberda <email address hidden> Sun, 17 Nov 2013 18:27:45 +0100

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.