README.Debian for xinetd
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  xinetd in debian is supposed to work with -inetd_compat enabled (you can
  tweak that in /etc/default/xinetd).

  Package maintainers that support xinetd in addition to xinetd, will drop
  files in /etc/xinetd.d/<service> _and_ add entries in /etc/inetd.conf,
  enabling them using update-inetd.

  If both an xinetd service configuration id and an entry in /etc/inetd.conf
  match, the xinetd one will hide the inetd.conf one, even if disabled. This
  trick is built to simplify the logic in update-inetd, and let the
  administrators only touch xinetd configuration and don't have
  /etc/inetd.conf mess with that they changed behind their back.

 -- Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>  Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:55:48 +0100