[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#843116: please reopen #843116 the avahi-daemon dangling symlink.

[shirish शिरीष]

Dear Michael,

Please re-open the bug. Even as you state that I "might have" deleted
it . Just to make sure that it wasn't the case, I reinstalled the
package to see what happens -

and as can be seen ─[$] sudo aptitude reinstall avahi-daemon
libavahi-core7
                   [12:03:49]
The following packages will be REINSTALLED:
  avahi-daemon libavahi-core7
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 reinstalled, 0 to remove and
81 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/202 kB of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
D000001: ensure_diversions: new, (re)loading
D000001: ensure_statoverrides: new, (re)loading
(Reading database ... 1156657 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../0-avahi-daemon_0.6.32-1_amd64.deb ...
D000001: process_archive oldversionstatus=installed
D000001: ensure_diversions: same, skipping
Unpacking avahi-daemon (0.6.32-1) over (0.6.32-1) ...
D000001: ensure_diversions: same, skipping
D000001: process_archive updating info directory
D000001: generating infodb hashfile
Preparing to unpack .../1-libavahi-core7_0.6.32-1_amd64.deb ...
D000001: process_archive oldversionstatus=installed
Unpacking libavahi-core7:amd64 (0.6.32-1) over (0.6.32-1) ...
D000001: process_archive updating info directory
D000001: generating infodb hashfile
D000001: cmpversions a='0:2016.03.30' b='0:2016.05.24' r=-2
D000001: cmpversions a='0:1.18.10' b='0:1.16' r=2
D000001: cmpversions a='0:1.18.10' b='0:1.16' r=2
D000001: cmpversions a='0:1.18.10' b='0:1.16' r=2
D000001: ensure_diversions: new, (re)loading
D000001: process queue pkg avahi-daemon:amd64 queue.len 5 progress 1, try 1
D000001: process queue pkg libc-bin:amd64 queue.len 5 progress 2, try 1
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-5) ...
D000001: ensure_diversions: same, skipping
D000001: process queue pkg systemd:amd64 queue.len 4 progress 1, try 1
Processing triggers for systemd (231-9) ...
D000001: ensure_diversions: same, skipping
D000001: process queue pkg man-db:amd64 queue.len 3 progress 1, try 1
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
D000001: ensure_diversions: same, skipping
D000001: process queue pkg dbus:amd64 queue.len 2 progress 1, try 1
Processing triggers for dbus (1.10.12-1) ...
D000001: ensure_diversions: same, skipping
D000001: process queue pkg libavahi-core7:amd64 queue.len 1 progress 1, try 1
Setting up libavahi-core7:amd64 (0.6.32-1) ...
D000001: deferred_configure updating conffiles
D000001: process queue pkg avahi-daemon:amd64 queue.len 0 progress 1, try 1
Setting up avahi-daemon (0.6.32-1) ...
D000001: deferred_configure updating conffiles
D000001: ensure_diversions: same, skipping
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-5) ...
D000001: ensure_diversions: same, skipping
D000001: cmpversions a='0:2016.03.30' b='0:2016.05.24' r=-2
D000001: cmpversions a='0:1.18.10' b='0:1.16' r=2
D000001: cmpversions a='0:1.18.10' b='0:1.16' r=2
D000001: cmpversions a='0:1.18.10' b='0:1.16' r=2
adequate found packaging bugs
-----------------------------

avahi-daemon: broken-symlink /etc/network/if-post-down.d/avahi-daemon
-> ../if-up.d/avahi-daemon

An apt-file search reveals that apart from apparmor the only
avahi-daemon files are those which it installs.

I cannot purge it as it is one of the recommends of task-desktop and
other packages to do it cleanly just to clear the state .

[$] sudo aptitude purge avahi-daemon
                                                            [12:11:48]
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  avahi-daemon{p} libavahi-core7{u}
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 81 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 557 kB will be freed.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libapache2-mod-dnssd : Depends: avahi-daemon (>= 0.6.5) but it is not
going to be installed
 pulseaudio-module-zeroconf : Depends: avahi-daemon but it is not
going to be installed
 telepathy-salut : Depends: avahi-daemon but it is not going to be installed
 libnss-mdns : Depends: avahi-daemon (>= 0.6.16-1) but it is not going
to be installed
 gnome : Depends: avahi-daemon but it is not going to be installed
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

      Remove the following packages:
1)      gnome [1:3.20+2 (now, testing, unstable)]
2)      gnome-core [1:3.20+2 (now, testing, unstable)]
3)      gnome-user-share [3.18.3-1 (now, testing, unstable)]
4)      libapache2-mod-dnssd [0.6-3.1 (now, testing, unstable)]
5)      libnss-mdns [0.10-7 (now, testing, unstable)]
6)      mate-user-share [1.16.0-1 (now, testing, unstable)]
7)      paprefs [0.9.10-2 (now, testing, unstable)]
8)      pulseaudio-module-zeroconf [9.0-4 (now, testing, unstable)]
9)      telepathy-salut [0.8.1-5+b1 (now, testing, unstable)]

      Leave the following dependencies unresolved:
10)     libavahi-compat-libdnssd1 recommends libnss-mdns
11)     cinnamon-desktop-environment recommends gnome-user-share
12)     cups recommends avahi-daemon
13)     cups-core-drivers recommends avahi-daemon
14)     cups-daemon recommends avahi-daemon (>= 0.6.31-3~)
15)     cups-browsed recommends avahi-daemon (>= 0.6.31-3~)
16)     empathy recommends telepathy-salut
17)     geoclue-2.0 recommends avahi-daemon
18)     gnome-control-center recommends gnome-user-share
19)     mate-desktop-environment-extras recommends mate-user-share (>= 1.16.0)
20)     rhythmbox recommends avahi-daemon
21)     task-desktop recommends avahi-daemon
22)     task-desktop recommends libnss-mdns

Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] q
Abandoning all efforts to resolve these dependencies.
Abort.

Look forward as to how to move forward on the situation.

-- 
          Regards,
          Shirish Agarwal  शिरीष अग्रवाल
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