It is possible to recover -- get dpkg -r to complete -- by doing
touch /etc/init.d/inetd chmod 755 /etc/init.d/inetd
dpkg -r netkit-inetd
It is possible to recover -- get dpkg -r to complete -- by doing
touch /etc/init.d/inetd
chmod 755 /etc/init.d/inetd
dpkg -r netkit-inetd