On Fri, 12 Jul 2013, Brian Minton wrote: > Package: base-files > Version: 7.2 > Severity: minor > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > Dear Maintainer, > > In the comments of /etc/nsswitch.conf, the following text is listed: > > # Example configuration of GNU Name Service Switch functionality. > # If you have the `glibc-doc' and `info' packages installed, try: > # `info libc "Name Service Switch"' for information about this file. > > However, running the specified command gives information about libcdio, > the GNU CD Input, Output, and Control Library, instead of the expected > information about the GNU C Library. > > I do have the two packages (glibc-doc and info) listed. > > However, after installing the glibc-doc-reference package, the command > produced the correct documentation. Therefore, I propose that the > /etc/nsswitch.conf comments be updated to include glibc-doc-reference > instead of glibc-doc.
The /etc/nsswitch.conf file which is installed by default was indeed fixed in base-files 3.1.16, in August 2006. You can see the default file here: /usr/share/base-files/nsswitch.conf This means your system was installed from Debian 3.1 (sarge) or earlier. (Congratulations!) The file stopped being a "conffile" in the dpkg sense, so updates to the default file did not affect the real file in /etc. But this will change in base-files 7.3 because I'm going to add code in postinst to update the file based on md5sum, as it's done for /etc/profile. Thanks a lot. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
