[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#768949: avahi-daemon: upgrade to 0.6.31-4+b1 broken

[Ph. Marek]

Package: avahi-daemon
Version: 0.6.31-4
Severity: normal

The package can't be upgraded anymore:

    $ apt-get dist-upgrade
    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree       
    Reading state information... Done
    Calculating upgrade... Done
    The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
      libicu44 libslang2-modules libt1-5 libts-0.0-0 python3-packagekit tsconf
    Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
    The following packages have been kept back:
      gaupol phonon-backend-vlc
    The following packages will be upgraded:
      avahi-daemon
    1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
    Need to get 0 B/87.2 kB of archives.
    After this operation, 128 kB disk space will be freed.
    Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
    Lese Changelogs...
    (Reading database ... 438951 files and directories currently installed.)
    Preparing to unpack .../avahi-daemon_0.6.31-4+b1_amd64.deb ...
    Job for avahi-daemon.service canceled.
    invoke-rc.d: initscript avahi-daemon, action "stop" failed.
    dpkg: warning: subprocess old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
    dpkg: trying script from the new package instead ...
    Job for avahi-daemon.service canceled.
    invoke-rc.d: initscript avahi-daemon, action "stop" failed.
    dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/avahi-daemon_0.6.31-4+b1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
     subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
    update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling back to defaults
    Errors were encountered while processing:
     /var/cache/apt/archives/avahi-daemon_0.6.31-4+b1_amd64.deb
    E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Even trying to start avahi-daemon via

    $ /etc/init.d/avahi-daemon start
    [ ok ] Starting avahi-daemon (via systemctl): avahi-daemon.service.

and then running the upgrade doesn't help.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.17-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages avahi-daemon depends on:
ii  adduser              3.113+nmu3
ii  bind9-host [host]    1:9.9.5.dfsg-5
ii  dbus                 1.8.8-2
ii  host                 1:9.10.0.dfsg~rc2-1
ii  init-system-helpers  1.21
ii  libavahi-common3     0.6.31-4+b1
ii  libavahi-core7       0.6.31-4+b1
ii  libc6                2.19-12
ii  libcap2              1:2.24-6
ii  libdaemon0           0.14-6
ii  libdbus-1-3          1.8.8-2
ii  libexpat1            2.1.0-6+b1
ii  lsb-base             4.1+Debian13+nmu1

Versions of packages avahi-daemon recommends:
ii  libnss-mdns  0.10-6

Versions of packages avahi-daemon suggests:
ii  avahi-autoipd  0.6.31-4+b1

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/avahi/avahi-daemon.conf changed:
[server]
use-ipv4=yes
use-ipv6=yes
allow-interfaces=eth0,wlan0,lo
ratelimit-interval-usec=1000000
ratelimit-burst=1000
[wide-area]
enable-wide-area=yes
[publish]
[reflector]
[rlimits]
rlimit-core=0
rlimit-data=4194304
rlimit-fsize=0
rlimit-nofile=768
rlimit-stack=4194304
rlimit-nproc=3


-- no debconf information

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