Bug#1101532: systemd: unable to migrate to Testing because of removed packages

[Noah Meyerhans]

On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 07:06:38PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> Do the cloud images use avahi at all? Assuming I'm looking at the right
> manifest:
> 
> https://cdimage.debian.org/images/cloud/trixie/daily/20250324-2061/debian-13-generic-amd64-daily-20250324-2061.json

No, in fact most cloud environments don't support multicast networking
at all, so disabling it is entirely safe.

> it seems not, so how about this: I'll take a personal risk and we can
> try once more with the pkg conflict. I'll reinstate the package, with
> an added "Conflicts: avahi-daemon" so that users have to choose one or
> the other, and avahi is the default so it always wins unless someone
> has very specific and customized use cases like yours.

That works for me.

> If everything goes fine, then all good. If instead the TC escalates
> again to DAM, then I'll remove the package again, and work to find an
> alternative that you can use with networkd in the cloud images, and try
> and find time to implement it.
> 
> How does this sound?

Well, we obviously would prefer to find a solution that doesn't involve
removing networkd altogether, should it come to that, but I'd hope we
don't get to that point.

noah