I'm not sure how you ended up without an avahi group but it definitely
creates one on install (confirmed in practice) and from the postinst
script:
if ! getent passwd avahi >/dev/null; then
adduser --disabled-password --quiet --system \
--home /var/run/avahi-daemon \
--gecos "Avahi mDNS daemon" --group avahi
fi
The only thing I can figure is that you created an avahi user manually,
e.g. to compile from source or some such which prevented this from
running and not creating a group.
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Missing group 'avahi' makes avahi-daemon fail to start
https://launchpad.net/bugs/54984
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