[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#782282: libnss-mdns: install-remove-install sequence removes mdns entries from /etc/nsswitch.conf

[Andreas Beckmann]

Package: libnss-mdns
Version: 0.10-6
Severity: important

Hi,

installing, removing (but not purging), and installing libnss-mdns again
results in an /etc/nsswitch.conf without mdns entries:

# apt-get install libnss-mdns:amd64
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
  avahi-autoipd zeroconf
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libnss-mdns
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/24.0 kB of archives.
After this operation, 109 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously unselected package libnss-mdns:amd64.
(Reading database ... 14693 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libnss-mdns_0.10-6_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libnss-mdns:amd64 (0.10-6) ...
Setting up libnss-mdns:amd64 (0.10-6) ...
First installation detected...
Checking NSS setup...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-17) ...

# grep hosts /etc/nsswitch.conf
hosts:          files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns

# dpkg -r libnss-mdns:amd64
(Reading database ... 14614 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing libnss-mdns:amd64 (0.10-6) ...
libnss-mdns.postrm: Checking NSS setup...
libnss-mdns.postrm: Removing mdns from NSS setup
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-17) ...

# grep hosts /etc/nsswitch.conf
hosts:          files dns

# apt-get install libnss-mdns:amd64
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
  avahi-autoipd zeroconf
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libnss-mdns
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/24.0 kB of archives.
After this operation, 109 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously unselected package libnss-mdns:amd64.
(Reading database ... 14693 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libnss-mdns_0.10-6_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libnss-mdns:amd64 (0.10-6) ...
Setting up libnss-mdns:amd64 (0.10-6) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-17) ...

# grep hosts /etc/nsswitch.conf
hosts:          files dns


Andreas