[Freedombox-pkg-team] Bug#1069240: freedombox: Deprecated libnss-gw-name in Recommends

Gioele Barabucci gioele.barabucci at uni-koeln.de
Thu Apr 18 13:22:06 BST 2024


Package: src:freedombox
Version: 24.8

Dear freedombox maintainers,

freedombox currently Recommends libnss-gw-name with the following 
justification: "Resolve gateway.localhost".

However, «Development of the NSS service gw_name stopped in 2015. The 
associated package libnss-gw-name may be removed in future Debian 
releases. The upstream developer suggests using libnss-myhostname 
instead.» [1]

Could you please remove libnss-gw-name and transition to libnss-myhostname?

Also note that when systemd-resolved is in use, `gateway.localhost` will 
be resolved to 127.0.0.1/::1, in case the user's nsswitch.conf file 
specifies `resolve` before `gw_name`.

[1] 
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#deprecated-components

Regards,

-- 
Gioele Barabucci



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