[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#353131: reopen, severity increase

[Joey Hess]

I've had to tag this bug unfixed since Arnand reverted the fix.

The desktop task currently installs libnss-mdns by default. While
recommendations are currently ignored by tasksel, it's also possible to
use aptitude directly to install the desktop task. If you do this, you
will now get zeroconf installed, due to this bug, which, as this bug
notes, will break some systems. Therefore, I feel that this bug should
be a higher severity than normal, though probably not RC.

It would be helpful if Arnand would deign to respond to reasoning such as
that posted by Sjoerd Simons to this bug report in March. Bug reports
that are left open without response for 7 months do not give me a lot of
faith in the maintenance level of packages, when I'm trying to decide
what packages are appropriate to be included in tasks. Getting a usable
mdns setup in the desktop task is my primary reason for caring about
this package.

Also, note that avahi has a new daemon that can handle link-local IP
assignment in an apparently much safer way than zeroconf. That's in the
avahi-autoipd package.

-- 
see shy jo
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