clone 353131 -1
retitle 353131 libnss-mdns shouldn't recommend zeroconf
reassign 353131 libnss-mdns
severity 353131 normal
retitle -1 zeroconf: Breaks network configuration
reassign -1 zeroconf
thanks,
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 12:49:40PM +0100, Bernardo Arlandis Mañó wrote:
> This package breaks network configuration in a very obscure way.
>
> I've don't really understood what it does. I use static network
> configuration, I just know it assigned a 169.254. address to my ethernet
> card, then it worked partially giving a lot of connection problems. Also,
> ifconfig and route didn't work anymore as expected.
>
> Please, make it work out-of-the-box whatever it should do, or at least leave
> it
> disabled. Meanwhile don't recommend it in other packages.
>
> A lot of packages now depend or recommend it, so it's a big problem for
> upgrades.
Avahi doesn't do link-local IP assignment, that's done by the zeroconf package.
You probably got it after installing avahi-daemon, because avahi-daemon
recommends libnss-mdns and libnss-mdns recommends zeroconf.
There are two issues here. First zeroconf shouldn't break your network even if
it's installed. Second there is no reason for libnss-mdns to recommend
zeroconf.
Reassigning the respecitive bugs to those packages.
Sjoerd
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