Package: avahi-daemon Version: 0.6.16-3etch1 Severity: important Justification: Violates policy/FHS
Upon startup, the following code is executed by /etc/init.d/avahi-daemon:
if [ -s /etc/localtime ]; then
if [ ! -d /etc/avahi/etc ]; then
mkdir -p /etc/avahi/etc >/dev/null 2>&1
fi
cp -fp /etc/localtime /etc/avahi/etc >/dev/null 2>&1
fi;
The mkdir and cp operations, apart from being very very strange, violate the FHS
implication of /etc/ being static. Maybe there is some upstream bug that expects
to find localtime in /etc/avahi/etc/localtime, but in any case this could be
easily worked around by creating /etc/avahi/etc and a symlink to /etc/localtime
within the postinst script. IMHO.
Best,
Michael
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