[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#781933: Bug#781933: avahi-daemon: Missing dependency on net-tools package

[Michael Biebl]

Am 05.04.2015 um 04:14 schrieb Olaf Meeuwissen:
> Package: avahi-daemon
> Version: 0.6.31-4+b2
> Severity: serious
> Justification: Policy 3.5
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> The /usr/lib/avahi/avahi-daemon-check-dns.sh script call ifconfig
> and route in its dns_reachable() function.  These utilities are
> part of the net-tools package but avahi-daemon does not declare a
> dependency on this package.  The ifupdown only suggested it, so I
> purged net-tools.  Now I get error messages when running
> 
>  sudo ifdown -a
>  sudo ifup -a
> 
> These are the error messages in question:
> 
>  /usr/lib/avahi/avahi-daemon-check-dns.sh: 35: /usr/lib/avahi/avahi-daemon-check-dns.sh: ifconfig: not found
>  /usr/lib/avahi/avahi-daemon-check-dns.sh: 39: /usr/lib/avahi/avahi-daemon-check-dns.sh: route: not found
> 
> Simply adding net-tools to the Depends: should fix this.

net-tools has been superseded by iproute2, so we should use that instead
(and maybe keep the ifconfig/route code as fallback)


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