Bug#350995: avahi-daemon wreaks havoc with wifi/ifplugd/wpasupplicant/dhcp setup

[martin f krafft]

Package: libgnomevfs2-0
Version: 2.12.2-5
Severity: important

I find it rather curious for GNOME to keep adding features just like
that. Fact is, pulling in avahi really breaks existing setups.

I use DHCP here. If avahi-server (which is pulled in through the
howl compat library by the latest libgnomevfs2-0) is started,
I obtain a lease, and 10 seconds later *something* releases that
lease again. If I stop avahi-server and obtain the lease, everything
works fine.

I will file a separate bug about this against avahi-server when
I find out more. I don't use GNOME, just gucharmap (which I need).
I don't see why I have to install avahi-daemon (and a whole lot of
other crap) just to be able to use gucharmap. This *is* Debian,
after all.

Please make avahi stuff a recommendation or suggestion, not
a dependency. Adding run-time linking abilities (i.e. loading the
library when it's available at run-time, not at compile time) isn't
*that* hard.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (700, 'stable'), (600, 'testing'), (98, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages libgnomevfs2-0 depends on:
ii  libavahi-comp 0.6.4-2                    Avahi Howl compatibility library
ii  libbonobo2-0  2.10.1-1                   Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libc6         2.3.5-12                   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libcomerr2    1.38+1.39-WIP-2005.12.31-1 common error description library
ii  libdbus-1-2   0.60-5                     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib- 0.60-5                     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgamin0 [li 0.1.7-3                    Client library for the gamin file 
ii  libgconf2-4   2.12.1-8                   GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0  2.8.6-1                    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnomevfs2- 2.12.2-5                   GNOME virtual file-system (common 
ii  libgnutls11   1.0.16-14                  GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii  libhal-storag 0.5.5.1-5                  Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libhal1       0.5.5.1-5                  Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libkrb53      1.4.3-5                    MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  liborbit2     1:2.12.4-1                 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libxml2       2.6.23.dfsg.1-0.1          GNOME XML library
ii  zlib1g        1:1.2.3-9                  compression library - runtime

Versions of packages libgnomevfs2-0 recommends:
ii  gamin                         0.1.7-3    File and directory monitoring syst
pn  libgnomevfs2-extra            <none>     (no description available)

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