Debian-Project - Release Goals for Version 2.1

Transparent integration of xinetd

This has been proposed by Joey.

At the moment we have two inetd servers. These are plain BSDish inetd and the new and more powerful xinetd. They use a completely differeent master configuration file and so they're incompatible and cannot replace each other.

Debian should provide a way to use either of them. This includes tools for

• Converting inetd to xinetd
• Converting xinetd to inetd
• Developing update-inetd for xinetd so users and packages can depend on this program which modifies the relevant config file.
  Raul Miller is working on this